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  • Side Quests, Side Streets and Side Channels

    Side Quests, Side Streets and Side Channels

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    Michael Agostinho
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    I’m not sure when the term side quest was coined, but it tracks. My students use the phrase all the time and I finally understand why. Summertime is about taking the road less traveled, going on tangents and reveling in the unknown. All while eventually arriving back in exactly the same place, home. And, a…

  • Nowhere, Alaska

    Nowhere, Alaska

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    Michael Agostinho
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    I’ve been nowhere for a few hours and gone a day or two without a shower, but that’s about it. Alaska was different. My compatriots and I talked for months about how we’d feel when the float plane took off and left us to our own devices in the Alaskan wilderness. It was surreal and…

  • Back “Home”

    Back “Home”

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    Michael Agostinho
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    I don’t have any immediate family left in New York State these days, but I have enough people that still feel like family. They’re the type of friends you fall back into rhythm with like a musician picking up an old guitar that’s been in a dusty closet for a year. It takes a few…

  • Summer

    Summer

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    Michael Agostinho
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    The word summer means a plethora of things to a great many people. It could be a day at the lake or maybe crushing frosty beverages at a weekend BBQ because that’s a rule. It could be a break from the kids after sending them off to camp for the week because you deserve it.…