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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Wet Seal employees left high and dry

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Nearly a decade ago, I remember being shocked by Radio Shack’s decision to use e-mail to let a bunch or workers know that they were being le...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Not that I know jack about White Castle, but veggie burgers?

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I don’t think that there were any White Castles in Worcester when I was growing up. We did have a White Tower. Like pretty much everyt...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

What’s with ice cream parlors anyway?

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If you like ice cream, it is good to be a New Englander. We’re above the national average as consumers and producers of ice cream, and there...
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Monday, January 05, 2015

Okay, Boston Globe, you win.

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For decades, pretty much from the time I could read, I was a daily newspaper reader. Our family had morning and afternoon papers delivered...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

How Jason Best did not have a jolly, holly Christmas

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I don’t go to a lot of movies. It’s not that I don’t like the movies. It’s just that, over the years, there have been fewer and fewer that I...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

New Year’s Day, 1990. (New Year’s Day, 2015.)

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I suppose I should be starting the new year thinking about the new year. God knows I’ve been looking forward to turning the page on the annu...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Christmas, 2014

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It’s been a year, that’s for sure. Last Christmas, my husband was dying. He was still doing well enough that we could get out to lunch o...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

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Well, I’m all for Christmas presents for pets. This year, the pet in my life – my sister Trish’s black lab – is getting a box of Greenies ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

The Company Holiday Party? Come on, most folks would rather have a Dunkin Donuts gift card.

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There was an article the other day on boston.com on the return of the company holiday party. The news that companies that had put the kibosh...
Friday, December 19, 2014

If we can put a man on the moon, surely we can solve the virtual reality vomit problem

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Me? I’ve got enough reality-reality in my life to worry about without going out and larding on virtual reality (VR). But for those who pre...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

It’s nice, you know, to kiss your beau…just watch for the drone-bearing mistletoe

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Not scary enough that the skies will sooner or later be filled with drones bearing whatever we order from Amazon. Not sufficient that we’ll ...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

That sinking feeling I always get when the package is coming via UPS…

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Trust me on this one. If you live: On a main thoroughfare In a large city In a small condo building that does not have a concie...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

An app for everything, and everything for an app

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Last week, I decided to get a bit more organized in the hall closet. Sick and tired of pulling out armloads of mixed up scarves, gloves, a...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Rats are never in vogue

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As a city dweller – make that a city dweller dwelling in reclaimed ocean – I am no stranger to rat sightings. Sometimes they’re scurrying ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

All that and a bag of nuts

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As Peter Paul Candy taught us year’s ago, some times you feel like a nut, some times you don’t. I’m one of those folks who, most of the ti...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Trendspotting for Foodies

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As 2014 draws to a close – and the sooner the better, from where I stand – my thoughts have turned to what to be on the lookout for in 2015....
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

“Solving upper-class problems since 1912.”

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While I was thumbing through last week’s New Yorker , a couple of ads caught my attention. One was a full-page, full-color, full-sized hea...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Hall of Famers: the 2014 Inductees (Toy Edition)

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Well, yesterday, I took on this year’s lousy toys. Today, we’re in kinder, gentler territory, with the classics that were inducted last mont...