Blogging from the road

This is probably the only posting I’ll be doing from the road on my trip back east.

Got into Boston from Oakland early this evening. Upon “deplaning,” I learned that the frail-looking fellow with the hearing aid in the seat in front of me was Huston Smith, author of The History of Religion, among other notable works. A woman leaned over to tell him his book was transformative for her during her college years, and he said, “You made my day.”

Rented a car and 20 minutes later I was at the front door of my friend Tom Regan, an associate editor at the Christian Science Monitor (he blogged from PopTech last week, though I haven’t found his new blog url yet). Had dinner wih his wonderful family (the wondrous Barbara Petsen and their four charming and brilliant little ones). Barbara’s got wifi in her home office, so I’m taking advantage on my Apple Powerbook. Tom, a Red Sox fan, and I hit a local pub and took some solace in the Yankees losing the World Series tonight.

Tomorrow I’ll be heading to a suburb of Boston for some background for a magazine story I’m researching. More later.

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