The best way to get to know any city is to wander off the beaten path. This can always be dangerous, but if you're careful about what paths you wander off on things work out just fine. We did a little roaming (time prevented us from more than a little) in Boston to get to know the City of Brick a bit better. What follows are some particularly nice Victorian and Georgian style buildings we encountered on our "off-roading" expedition. Notice in several of the pictures the odd juxtaposition of the older red brick buildings with the towering glass and steal skyscrapers that surround them. That became a recurring theme throughout our visit.
I got my Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was eleven years old. That's a couple years after it first came out. The occasion was a little dramatic: to celebrate the end of a two-and-a-half year course of treatment for cancer. I had no idea that it would be waiting for me at home after the final doctors visit. It was a nice spring day, the trees were waving gently in the breeze outside the bay windows. With a cup of tea resting on the coffee table, I set down to play. What was that first game? It was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past . Around twenty years later, my SNES still works as does that Zelda cartridge. It's been a long way from boyhood in Southern Connecticut to manhood in North Houston, but I'm still playing. Why am I still playing? There were stretches when I didn't. Many times, I've just been too busy. There were also seasons when it felt embarrassing to still be playing video games....
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