The Gift of Travel, and Tchotchkes Along the Way

A gift from a little boy in Dharamsala, India

Gifts You Never Knew You Wanted

1) Breast Milk Lollipops (4 for $8)

2) Snail secretion face mask

3) Home genetic engineering kit

4) Golf club urinal

5) Fish training kit…

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You Gotta Laugh: The Attraction Of Bad Writing

Jennifer stood there, quietly ovulating.

Adam Cadre (creator of the Lyttle Lytton Contest)

Humph eyed the corpse, its face split in two in much the same way as the Brexit referendum had divided her native country in 2016.

Christopher Hoult
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Everyone is a Critic These Days

J. J. Grandville’s illustration of Gulliver suffering the slings and arrows of the Lilliputians, from Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s writings were criticized by
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Provincetown: What Remains of Paradise

In the cool light of winter, looking out at MacMillan wharf

P-Town: The Nuts and Bolts

I recently wrote two travel pieces about Provincetown, Mass. for Travel Awaits, about the nuts and bolts of a visit to P-town in winter

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