Viv's First Honeymoon, in four parts.

Tell me, do I link to First Person Particular too often? It's truly one of the best journal sites I've read. And this is a great story.

I'm reading a book called Home Town by Tracy Kidder. It's about Northampton, Massachusetts. This is a very interesting book -- it reads like a novel, but it's actually non-fiction. All the people in the book are residents of Northampton. And as far as I can tell, the author has used all their real names. I've never read anything like it before. Like Viv's story of her honeymoon, this book is making me think about the lines we draw between fiction and non-fiction, among other things.

I am wondering about all these Puerto Rican flags I'm seeing everywhere. I never noticed them until about last fall. Now I see them everywhere I go -- on stores, houses, cars. Just Saturday, I was behind a red convertible on the highway, flying along with the top down and two Puerto Rican flags streaming out from the sides of the car. Like it had just come back from a parade. I don't know if there's really more of these flags around now, or if I have just become more attuned to them recently for some unknown reason. ;-)