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Friday, November 28, 2014

I wish I hadn’t seen this

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Me? I couldn’t wait until Cyber Monday to get going on my online Christmas shopping. I’ve been doing a bit here and there, getting the jum...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving 2014

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This is a year in which I have a couple of things to be decidedly unthankful for. Namely, the death of my husband and the death – two months...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Shopping on Thanksgiving Day. Tsk, tsk. (At least now we know who to blame for it…)

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Me, I believe that there should be a couple of days a year when stores are closed. I know it’s impossible in the era of online shopping – ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Title Inflation News from the Hot Stove League

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Even though it’s the off-season, I always keep an eye out for stories about baseball. It’s winter, and I like having the hot stove league ...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

The Smoking Lamp Remains Lit in Westminster, Massachusetts

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In Massachusetts, usually when there’s some sort of pro-environmental, pro-health (known to some as nanny-state) ordinance enacted, it happe...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Can STEM girls be pretty in pink? Mattel thinks not.

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In the old days, Barbie was just a glamour puss, standing tall in her spikes and striped bathing suit, just waiting for you to pull a ball g...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

A few words on words

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There was a fun little piece over on the WSJ small business blog the other day. In the post that caught my eye, three folks sounded off on ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

How’s this for a hostile work environment?

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As a veteran of at least a couple of hostile work environments, I will, of course, be drawn to any headline reading My Boss is Creating a Ho...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Spies are everywhere. (And I do mean everywhere.)

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Boston’s Dolt of the Month Award for November has to go to the creep who “found” an iPhone on a T-platform and walked away with it it. Wel...
Monday, November 17, 2014

My landline: kept only so that I can continue to hear the dulcet voice of Rachel from cardholder services

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Last week, I actually got two real calls on my landline. One was from the hairdresser, confirming my appointment. (I confirmed but, alas,...
Friday, November 14, 2014

And you think you had a rotten day on the job

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Last summer, no longer able to stand looking out through a scrim of dirt, I washed the outside windows in my greenhouse/solarium kitchen. Wh...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Pet friendly

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Patricia Marx had an excellent piece in The New Yorker a few weeks back on the new pet-owner trend in which those who can’t stand being sep...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Goldbricking

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There was an excellent little column a few weeks back in The Economist on what it terms “one of the world’s most popular, if unrecognised, ...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Veterans Day 2014

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Although I am not a veteran, I am the daughter of one. (And the granddaughter of another. Of course, when celebrating veterans, it’s more my...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Diamonds are forever? Diamonds are a girl’s best friend? Diamonds can be made out of peanut butter, too?

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Last week, my cousin Babs and I went up to the cemetery where our parents are buried and planted tulips. The tulips are to tide things ove...
Friday, November 07, 2014

The Prince and the Pauper

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No, I really don’t follow The Royals all that closely, but I couldn’t help but pick up on a recent news item, in which it was revealed that ...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

I wasn’t going to say anything, but gimme a break

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As those who live in the Boston Metro are WAY MORE THAN WELL aware, Tom Menino, our former mayor, died last week. I certainly feel plenty ...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

DJIA: surprisingly, it’s (still) pretty darned industrial

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I recently read about a study of the companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrials. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of volatility in th...