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Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Seriously, aren’t there enough real anti-Chevron people out there?

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I’m just guessing that there are plenty of reasons to criticize Chevron. They are, after all, BIG OIL While I don’t spend a lot of time ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Hollywood taxidermy? Prey tell.

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One of the most interesting – and creepy – local museums in these parts is the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Sure, it has all kinds of glass ...
Monday, June 02, 2014

Trigger Warning: this blog post may offend someone

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I am, apparently, not the sensitive type. When I read “The Great Gatsby,” I wasn’t bothered by “a variety of scenes that reference gory, a...
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Friday, May 30, 2014

Thin Mint e-cigs? No matter the Girls Scouts are smoking mad.

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As commercial, non-home-made cookies go, it’s hard to improve on the perfection that is the Girl Scout Thin Mint. Nothing I like better th...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Where’s Cesar Chavez when we need him?

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Forget worrying about the military-industrial complex. We’ve got a food-industrial complex on our hands that’s going to kill us – or at leas...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The thin line between Rap Genius and Rap Moron

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For some reason, I never seem to be able to get it through my thick skull that there are ostensibly intelligent people who do outrageously s...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Laundry delivery services as a major “disrupter”? I’m going to wash that thought right out of my mind.

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Q: What is my favorite household task, and the favorite of my sisters, as well?’ A: As anyone with more than passing acquaintance with T...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day, 2014

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And so another Memorial Day comes around. I feel like I’m one of those 1930’s – 1940’s black and white movies where they illustrate the pa...
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Friday, May 23, 2014

This makes me happy

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Frankly, one of the dirty little secrets about growing old is that it’s actually fun to piss, moan, crank, and curmudgeon about what the yo...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Forget finance and marketing. (Grinds!) I’m focusing on travel and networking.

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A few weeks back, I attended a family wedding. The wedding was lovely, picture perfect. Even the weather co-operated, which is not always a ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Food, not so glorious, food

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Movie-goers of a certain age might well recall a film from the early 1970’s called Soylent Green . It’s a sci-fi/dystopic flick in which our...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

A rolling sarcophagus by any other name

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As if GM doesn’t have enough problems matters on their hands, one of the things that’s come out is a 2008 confidential Power Point instruct...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Oh, Jill Abramson, why’d you have to go and do that for? (If, in fact, you actually did…)

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I must admit that, until this weekend, when I ended up in a hay-fever induced stupor watching Charlie Rose and 24/7 pundits on MSNBC, I had ...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Burberry-worthy.

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I spent last weekend visiting some old friends in Dallas. We have an awful lot of past to gab over, as Joyce was my college roommate (and po...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Free to be gluten-free

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There was a fun little piece on boston.com last week on the diet fad that is gluten free which, as rages go, is to this decade (the 20-teens...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

2,824 MPG: now that’s fuel efficiency

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There has been so much crappy news of late, climate-wise. First, there was last week’s release of the White House report on climate chang...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

A whale of a tale

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It’s not every day that you see a headline that reads “Dead Sperm Whale No Longer For Sale on eBay,” so it did, of course, capture my attent...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Didn’t we used to call this a retreat?

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Spiritual retreats were a staple of my Catholic girlhood. When I was in high school, we had a three-day retreat every January, sometimes h...