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Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Temporary insanity

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A few weeks back there was an article (“Workers on Tap”) in The Economist that talked about the rise of the temp economy. Having freelanc...
Monday, March 02, 2015

Hey, Venmo! (Happy to be a Luddite.)

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Believe it or not, there are many excellent things about getting older. One of the most excellent of the excellent is looking at what the ...
Friday, February 27, 2015

You look smokin’ in that hoodie, dude.

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The awesome-ness of our infinitely, ridiculously inventive economy never ceases to amaze me. Oh, sure, some of what comes out of our aweso...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Sweet dreams, Signor Nutella

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I remember the first time I tried Nutella. It was 1972, and I was in graduate school at Columbia. One of the folks who was in the large ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Climbing every mountain

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It may have been lost in all the other bad (weather) news, but over Presidents’ Day weekend, a young woman (32; not what-me-die? foolish you...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Oh, what a world we live in

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The train on monetizing this blog has long since left the station. To make any money, I would have had to come up with a specific niche f...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

What’s in the 2015 swag bag? Stuff, glorious stuff, of course.

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As I’m writing this post – Sunday, February 22 – I haven’t as yet decided if and when I’ll turn on the Academy Awards. I do watch it occas...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Thankful for small blessings

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When I woke up yesterday morning, the sun was shining. Sure, it was only about 20 degrees, but what with the sunshine and everything, I th...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

SubTropolis? Sounds like a plan.

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I’ve been to Minneapolis, where, because of the colossally awful winter weather, many of the downtown commercial buildings are connected via...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Me, me, me, me, measles…

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When I was growing up, kids got what were known as “childhood diseases.” So I got measles. And German measles. And chicken pox. What I r...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Someone to watch over (me)

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Today marks the first anniversary of my husband’s death. It’s been a long year… On February 17, 2014, I got to Mass General very early i...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Presidents’ Day, 2015

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Going way back to when it was Washington’s Birthday, I’ve enjoyed Presidents’ Day. As a kid, it meant a day – and the rest of the week – o...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Snow day? Snow weekend? Snow week? Snow month?

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Despite the fact that it was a bit snowy yesterday, I decided that I needed to get out for a bit. So I went out for a bit. Naturally, pa...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Home away from home office

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If you live in Boston, these are the times that try men’s souls. And women’s souls. Especially if those folks are working out of a home offi...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

What’s love got to do with it, do with it? Not much, apparently, if you’re engaged to Charles Manson

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One thing about being snowbound is that, in addition to taking long, guilt-free afternoon naps, you can find yourself frittering away even m...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Where there’s a whim, there’s a way. (Or, who says the one per-centers aren’t job creators?)

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One of the best thing about having a cadre of one per-centers is that they are job creators. Oh, they may not be job creators in the way t...