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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Halloween Biz

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It is not, as has been rumored, the second biggest holiday spendathon - no, Valentine's Day,Mother's Day, Father's Day, and East...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

What would you take?

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After 9/11, and again after Katrina, I asked myself just what I would take if I had 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 5 hours to gather things up and ev...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

What Price Hannah Montana?

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Most people who have a tweener girl in their life know who and what Hannah Montana is. Hannah Montana is a Disney Network creation, a show ...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Hafize Sahim: Walking Tall

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With all the sundry low wage jobs I held in my youth, I never worked in any sort of on-your-own retail establishment. My retail jobs were in...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Won't be water, it's fire next time

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Along with everyone else in the country, I have been watching the California fire storms with depressing fascination. Unbelievable, we sigh,...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Love that Dirty Water: ten good reasons to root for the Red Sox in the World Series

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In 2004, the Boston Red Sox were destiny's darlings - and everybody else's darlings, for that matter. The dramatic comeback against ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Curling up with a good Kindersay

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My favorite baby gift is books. And I have my list of favorites that I go back to again and again. There are no surprises I'm sure: Mak...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Enemy-up: Facebook backlash is up and running

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Not surprisingly, there are some anti-Facebook initiatives  materializing here and there. The Boston Globe had a recent article by Jenn Abel...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Listen up:The Power [and Business] of Listening

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In a WSJ  column a few weeks ago (which I believe you need to subscribe to in order to access), Jared Sandberg wrote about a course he'd...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

L.S.M.F.T.

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Walking in downtown Boston the other day with my niece Molly, I saw, flattened on the sidewalk, an empty package of Lucky Strikes cigarettes...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Food, Inglorious Food

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It's certainly been quite a month for tainted food products, hasn't it? First there was the rodent-in-the-canned-beans incident, in...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Me-Me-Me-Me-Me

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Well, over in The Boston Globe the other day, Jake Halpern was talkin' 'bout Me Generation . Halpern's (d.o.b., 1975) take on t...
Monday, October 15, 2007

Noises Off: T-Radio in Boston

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I am an irregular public-transpo commuter these days, but I am nonetheless decidedly unenchanted by the MBTA's (Mass Bay Transportation ...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

Lydia, oh Lydia, the tattooed lady

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When I was a kid, the only people I knew who had tattoos were vets -mostly Marines and Navy. A couple of my uncles had them - anchors, aweig...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Family Business: Oral Roberts University School for Scandal

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I'll admit it right up front: I am one of those big city, East Coast, capital-L-Liberal, secular humanist, sneer-down-their-bony-noses-...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Bleuberries pour Sal

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One of my favorite kids' books is Robert McCloskey's Blueberries for Sal , which is about a little girl's encounter with a blue...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

White Collar Holler

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A week or so ago, my sister Kathleen sent me a link with a listen to Jonathan Coulton's very sweet and very funny ode to techies, ...
Monday, October 08, 2007

McMansions: Hold the golden arches. (That house is big enough already.)

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A few things caught my eye over the last week or so. One was the story that John Henry, one of the Red Sox' owners, had just purchased a...
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