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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

It’s Howdy Foodie Time!

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Every once in a while, The New Yorker has a food-themed issue, and the November 4th number was one such edition. I’m not a cook. And I’m ...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Foc.us Poc.us

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My trendspotter sister Kath, always with the gimlet eye out, had a recent blog post on DIY transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). ...
Monday, November 04, 2013

Knock it offs

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I suppose I’m of the age that I should know something about Lou Reed. But, hey, babe, I never really took a walk on the wild side, so pretty...
Friday, November 01, 2013

Redemption: Red Sox win it all!

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I’m a sports fan. Basketball isn’t my favorite sport. A hoops game is not something I’m likely to turn on unless my husband wants to – it’...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Boo to you, too

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Happy Halloween! This year, if I stick my nose out of the house at all, I’ll be going as a late-middle age, slightly zaftig urban dweller....
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Memo to the gals at Clifford Chance

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When I see the way professional women are often portrayed in TV or in the movies – I’m thinking of some of the outfits that law firm managin...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Chore time

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In an amusing article in The Economist , “ Apps for Brats ”, which described applications that attempt to get kids to do things like eat mor...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Olde Towne Team Gives Smith Brothers a Boost

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Whatever happens with the World Series – and as of this writing, our boys of summer are down 2 games to 1 on a really miserable, could-have-...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Jofi Joseph tweets his career away

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It’s always amazing to me when highly-educated, presumably intelligent people with interesting, challenging, and enviable careers, and lofty...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Bernie Madoff: after years of taking, the gift that keeps on giving

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Hard to believe that we’re approaching the fifth anniversary of the Fall of the House of Madoff.  For a while there, Madoff-palooza was a re...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Consider the Snood: Canine Edition

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Why,  just four short years ago, I was considering the snood , which, in November 2009 was being trend-spotted. Trend-spotted, as we well ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

47 Brand: there actually is such a thing as good customer service

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Recently, I’ve been in the market for a ultra-large baseball cap for my husband. And in this house, at this time, that would be a Res Sox ...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

My ongoing and highly personal battle with drain flies

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At first, I didn’t even know what they were. But I looked it up, and found that they were drain flies. At first, they weren’t in our uni...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Shaking things up in Cubicle City

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My first office was shared. I shared it with a fellow who was fairly eccentric, but relatively quiet. But it had a window. And a door.  ...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

An-tha-neeeee! Wednesday’s no longer Prince Spaghetti Day in Italy.

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Okay, I realize it’s Thursday. So I know that, even in the Italian North End of Boston it wouldn’t be Prince Spaghetti Day. I’m not even...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Hey there, Toots, put on your re-venge boots

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Oh, who doesn’t have the revenge fantasy in which they put it to their former companies/colleagues/bosses. A few people act on it, and t...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Stuff

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Like everyone else I know, I have a lot of stuff. It’s stuffed into closets. It’s stuffed into drawers. It’s stuffed under the bed. It’s s...