So I’m doing a blog for my mom’s museum, the Gustav Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms.
I had this awesome idea to do a series of posts on a “Stickley in the blogosphere” theme, connecting to  posts on personal blogs talking about trips to the museum. It was pretty successful, I found a lot of people […]

My dad: How did you happen to know < the contact info for a local business > ?
Meg: Google. Isn’t that the way we know everything?
My dad: Socrates would hate hearing that.

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I’m doing some work for my mom, making a blog for her museum. It’s a great project, although I’m not exactly  knowledgable about history or art in the last 2000 years, so she has to keep me from writing things like “Come to an old house and look at stuff!” and “Some famous guy is […]

I got my license several years ago in Massachusetts, but it expired while I was in China, and now that I’m home in New Jersey, I’d like to drive legally. Today I spent a couple hours on the phone with various DMV employees trying to make that happen.
My license is both expired and out-of-state, which […]

I flew up to New Jersey yesterday to see my family. The upside to the visa hassles and life upheaval is that I get to visit my folks! It’s been just under a year since I’ve seen my family. Now I can eat my mom’s cooking, read Cosmo, speak English all the time, get on […]

Char: You’ve got Gram Lucy’s longevity genes, Stick. You’re going to be the little old man in the nursing home… all hunched over and playing on your X-X-X-Box.
Stick: Uh,  I don’t think that’s for playing games.

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…last week, I accidentally called your mom at like midnight…thinking I was calling Beth’s CELL PHONE, but I was calling the house, LOL. I apologized to your mom, and she was like, “That’s okay, Germaine. I thought you were Megan because she usually calls at this time.”
–Germaine

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I told my dad about our new hutong home. He said I could live even closer to the Forbidden City but I’d probably have to become a concubine.

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When I was younger, right before Christmas, my family would drive to Kearny, NJ, where there was a street of Scottish import stores. We would get our all-important Christmas meat pies and sausage rolls, and eat our the traditional pre-Christmas fish-and-chips supper, followed by gigantic empire cookies.
My granny would get nostalgic over all the foods […]