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Two words: sleeper cars!
Sell your stock in trains, short-haul airlines, and motels.
Every January first I post on Facebook:
This tells me who doesn’t read my posts.
I live in Southern California, and I always love the notions that my East Coast suburban friends that I live in some enclave of intellectual and social stimulation. It’s one of those things projected by people akin to “living in a city has exposed to me so many new cultures”
Most of my neighbors and I have awkward conversations about the weather on the elevator. We don’t get to know each other, a lot of us have various shifts in jobs we don’t like while doing creative pursuits.
For the most part, community is what you make it, it’s about your personal effort, you don’t “find” it, you build it.
Well, so much for my excitement at the move!
At least I will be near Stanford and can crash the Hoover Institute and build my friendship with Peter R.
I was thinking more about your daughter’s attitude at suburban soccer moms vs her new situation, not you. I was like her in her thinking that the reason I wasn’t connecting was them, not me.
Steer clear of drunken soccer moms.
Slightly tipsy soccer moms, however, can be great companions.
Slightly tipsy homeschooling soccer moms are an education. Teach you more about the other team than an Alice Munro collection for sure.
Feinburg, I could hear the music.
There is a surely sweet spot, so to speak, on the progression from the first stone cold sober sip at one end to talking to Ralph on the big white telephone on the other.
And I’m going to check out this Alice Munro, too.
Thanks. It will be interesting to see if you’re the only one.
@michaelstopa
Welcome to California, and good luck with the new career!