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Monday, September 08, 2014

Dedicated follower of fashion. (I’m feelin’ so groovy now.)

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“Sixties Fashion Returns”. What Boomer could ignore that headline. Of course, I knew right off the Birkin bag that they weren’t talking...
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Friday, September 05, 2014

When will we ever learn?

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Earlier this year, we observed the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One. Earlier this week, we observed the 75th anniversary of...
Thursday, September 04, 2014

Modern Denny’s? Hip Denny’s? Lower Manhattan Denny’s? Huh?

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Just got back from a quick overnight to NYC, so I’m still in a New York state of mind. And that New York state of mind, when hearing about...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Forget the Knee Defender, I want an Armrest Defender. (Are you listening, Ira Goldman?)

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I am one of those folks who can sleep in an airplane seat without having to recline. Oh, sometimes I’ll go back a smidge, but mostly I keep ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2014

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (learning to shoot an Uzi)

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This is back to school week for a lot of kids, and in some schools, students will be asked to report on how they spent their summer vacation...
Monday, September 01, 2014

Labor Day, 2014

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In keeping with what has become a Labor Day tradition, Pink Slip is taking the day off. Which I’ll do, with a link to an earlier Labor Day...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Wednesday in Bellows Falls: oh, what a day…

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When we found out that my husband’s time on earth was short, Jim and I spent some talking about where he wanted his ashes to go. Most of t...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Practical skills? You better shop around.

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I went to an all-girls high school in the 1960’s, so of course there were no shop classes. There were no home ec courses offered, either. ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Warning labels on choclat? Just say non!

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I am a complete and firm believer that a chocolate a day (at minimum) keeps, if not the doctor, then the psychiatrist, away. And that a day ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Thank you for coming to Fenway? Don’t mention it.

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I am a baseball fan by both baptism and desire – much my favorite sport. And the Red Sox, even after watching them through so many years tha...
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Monday, August 25, 2014

Naked Came the Dater

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I’m a true believer that “reality” TV serves an important keep-the-lid-on function in our society. After all, it provides hope for those who...
Friday, August 22, 2014

One awful way to make an awful living

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One thing I’ve got to say: there are an awful lot of awful ways to try to make a living out there. And one of them has to be dressing up l...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Truth in advertising, or infographic gone bad?

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Well, I’m on of those out-of-fashion readerly types who believes that one word is worth a thousand pictures, so my bias is clearly toward th...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The Elvis Biz

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Last weekend, we observed the 37th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Well, I actually didn’t observe it. Amazingly, I can go we...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Be afraid, be very afraid…(Damn, that technology can be scary sometimes.)

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It’s not as if I don’t like technology. Come on, I’ve spent the last 30+ years making my living in the tech biz. It’s not as if I don’t...
Monday, August 18, 2014

I know where I’ll be planted, but what about my plants…

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I don’t have the green thumb that my mother had – Liz was a complete and utter plant lady. But I don’t have a gangrenous black thumb, either...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Just a couple of degrees of separation from Bernie Madoff

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I never took a course with him – he was in Operations Research* which, beyond the one required course, I avoided like the plague – but when ...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Bosses ask the darndest things

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The Guardian recently asked readers to send in the oddest (generally inappropriate) things that there managers had ever asked them to do. ...