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Monday, July 07, 2014

The Village People

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Boomers, there's no need to feel down. I said, boomers, pick yourself off the ground. I said, boomers, 'cause you're...
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Friday, July 04, 2014

Fourth of July. (That was then, this is now.)

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As pretty much everyone who has ever lost anyone they cared about knows, the first year after someone’s death, you find yourself playing the...
Thursday, July 03, 2014

Hmmmm. Isn’t this what we used to call “moral hazard”?

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Years ago, when the cranky and smarter-than-thou John Silber was the president of Boston University, he proposed that BU take out life insur...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2014

This is the Army, Mr. (and Ms.) Jones

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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, my father tried to join the Army. At 29, and working in plant that did war-related work (produccing industrial...
Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Come along and be my (funeral) party doll…

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A few weeks ago, in my reality TV cruising lethargy, I happened upon a show focused on unique, some might say over-the-top, funerals. I wasn...
Monday, June 30, 2014

You know, sometimes I do ask the BIG questions

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For a  number of years now, The New Yorker has run a Cartoon Caption Contest on its last page. Each week, a new, captionless cartoon is p...
Friday, June 27, 2014

June 28, 1914. The real shot heard round the world.

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One hundred years ago tomorrow, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated in Sarajevo. T...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Wrestle Mania

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Who among us doesn’t have some sort of Walter Mitty thing going on? Sure, we might be sitting in our 6’ x 6’ cubicle all day, staring at a s...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Mount Olympics on Beacon Hill? No thanks.

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Not that it means all that much, but we learned a couple of weeks back that Boston – yes, that Boston – is on the US Olympic Committee’s s...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Pepper plays a hooker

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Every family has it’s own catch phrases, in-jokes, code words, and “just us” vocabulary. With my husband, there was “yabaddyanget” (someth...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Washboard Abs(urd)

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Being a millennial is so darned hard. It’s, like, nothing is, like, convenient enough. What a drag! Fortunately, for the millennials, ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

The foolish man builds his house upon the sand. (Tunica, Mississippi edition)

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I’m one of those folks who cast a dubious eye on casino gambling as an economic panacea. Not that I have any great moral objection to gamb...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Losing Lbs., one Oz at a time

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I haven’t watched a lot of Dr. Oz. When it comes to TV doctors, I prefer the old fashioned kind – Jim Kildare, Marcus Welby, Doug Ross, an...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Riding the rails (here and there)

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On Monday, I took the commuter rail to Providence. It’s a trip I’ve made many times to visit my old and very dear friend Marie. Yesterday’s ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Ireland Abú

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Well, I have to say I found Ireland a lot more positive, economically speaking, than I did last time I was back in 2011. The people we spo...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Inis Mór

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Well, my nieces and I had a wonderful trip to Ireland: low on the purely touristic experiences, high on the just plain being there. Not th...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Whither Pink Slip?

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Taking the day off to enjoy Dublin with my nieces. Maybe afternoon tea at the Shelbourne Hotel (a grande dame which I’m a bit disappointed...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Memento Mori

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I will be the first to admit that one of the best things about museum-going is going to the museum shop. Some museum shops are so alluring t...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Kingdom come, kingdom go

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Well, I’m in Ireland, where some claim that everyone’s descended from kings. I’m a bit dubious. Personally, I think that, if I went poki...