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1. Trips are much more complicated with a small child along.

2. Wake Forest, NC really isn’t a place I want to live any more. Once upon a time, it was. However … whatever Cary (NC) has is catching, and Wake Forest has it bad. Really, really, really bad. Soon I’ll be ashamed to admit I know where the town is …

I spent a lot of time thinking about how there isn’t much left I identify with. For instance:

• Keith’s and Lyons (local grocery stores) are gone. I really miss Keith’s …
• The Seminary ripped up the old hodge-podge of sidewalks years ago and put in a uniform brick surface … except in two (inexplicable) spots.
• NC 98 doesn’t go through downtown any more.
• The old filling station at the corner of White St. and Roosevelt Ave. is (long) gone.
• The Corner is closed.
• Burkenstock’s is closed.
• The Western Auto moved away from its old location on White St. long ago and closed a few years back.
• Winn-Dixie broke their promise to keep their old downtown store open and abandoned us for a spot out on US 1.
• Holden’s (Drug Store) sold out to CVS a while back.
• Heritage WF.
• Wakefield.

That just scratches the surface.

But … somebody (maybe C.S. Lewis) said something to the effect of “A person dies a second time when all the people who knew them die.” William Faulkner said “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” So … I guess for the time being, what Wake Forest was lives on …

3. Polarizing filters are the bomb diggity for photography.

4. Jersey Mike’s makes awesome sandwiches. Dunno why we don’t have one here in Chattanooga.

That is all for now.

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