A few weeks ago, when I was in California at my high school reunion, I was in a conversation that went something like this:<\/p>\n
“And where do you live now?”<\/p>\n
“Massachusetts.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, that’s one of those small states back East that are all on the same puzzle piece.”<\/p>\n
“We call that New England.”<\/p>\n
— but I had that same puzzle when I was a kid, and they are. Or really, five of the New England states were on one piece and Maine had its own piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few weeks ago, when I was in California at my high school reunion, I was in a conversation that went something like this: “And where do you live now?” “Massachusetts.” “Oh, that’s one of those small states back East that are all on the same puzzle piece.” “We call that New England.” — but … <\/p>\n