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Showing posts with label Worcester. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Worcester. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

A Not So Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

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In early May of last year, I was watching the news when a familiar-looking neighborhood appeared. The story - which was about local resident...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Triple deckers

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I always tell people that I grew up in a triple decker, which is kinda-sorta true. I only lived there until I was six-and-a-half, when we mo...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Oh, what have they done to the smiley face?

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One of my home town of Worcester's many contributions to the greater good is the smiley face.  It was "invented" by one Harvey...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Pencil Mine

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I see that among the other daffy things he wants to do, the current occupant of the Oval Office wants to bring back coal mining. Which is in...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

A not so beautiful day in the neighborhood

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When I looked at the news from Worcester, my first reaction was that the neighborhood they w ere showing in the pictures looked like the nei...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Candlepins for Cash!

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I'm not much of a bowler.  Not that I ever tried to be much of a bowler. I'm 75. Have I been bowling two dozen, maybe three dozen ti...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Way to wreck your college career - and maybe even beyond - Greyhounds!

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Didn't a college prank used to be a panty raid or stealing a traffic cone? One Christmas, at my all women's Catholic college in the ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

A couple of new editions

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I completely appreciate that the timing for Christmas is just terrific, distracting us from our struggle to get through the gloomy dark days...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

I couldn't have done this

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When I was in college, I spent my summers waitressing. After college, but before "real life" clicked in, I waitressed for a couple...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

I read the news today, oh boy

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He died last April, but the news just came out this week. The delay was weirdly reminiscent of the delay between when the My Lai Massacre oc...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Worcester Man

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Joel Kaimakani Libed is an entertainer - singer, dancer, actor. And like a lot of entertainers - the ones who are plenty talented but we...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024

The Department Store (oh so long ago...)

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When I was growing up in Worcester, the major department store was Denholm's (formally: Denholm & McKay). Denholm's was also kno...