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Monday, July 06, 2015

Desperate for Work

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few weeks ago, on the job front news, we found that Donald Trump had done a casting call for extras to populate his presidential announcemen...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Pink Slip takes a long weekend (Here’s to The Glorious Fourth”)

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In honor of one of my favorite holidays, Pink Slip is taking the day off. But I don’t want to leave readers bereft of my musings, so here’s ...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Accomplice? Maybe this will give new meaning to the word.

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What with the Shawshank escape artists and their three weeks on the lam, the word “accomplice” has been in the news quite a bit lately. And ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Coloring between the lines.

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One of the great pleasures of my childhood was cracking open a new coloring book, flipping through it, and deciding what picture to color ne...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Stuffed full of stuff

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I like to say that, every year, you  should pretend you’re moving and ruthlessly go through your stuff. While I like to say it, I rarely li...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

I shuddle to think what could happen

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When I was a growing up, there was precious little need for parents to chauffeur their young kids around.The reasons were pretty simple: the...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Remind me again how we used to live without ATM cards?

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My ATM card is also my debit card, which I pretty much only use it as a debit card for grocery shopping. Until a couple of weeks back, I cou...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Pink Flamingos (Worcester’s Own)

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As cultural connoisseurs are well aware, Worcester is something of a touchstone for matters pop-cultural. One of the things that made me eno...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Inns and Outs of the Center Lovell Inn Brouhaha

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A few weeks back, there was a feel-good article in the Boston Globe about a couple from the US Virgin Islands who’d won an essay contest. T...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Fluff

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Ask anyone who grew up in New England what one of their favorite childhood sandwiches was, and I’m guessing that a good two-thirds would nam...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Not such a grand old flag

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My mother once owned a red car. This was at a point in time when Massachusetts only used one license plate, so folks filled in the empty spa...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

Flying solo: big trip to Edinburgh

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Although I wasn’t on my own the entire time, last week’s trip to Scotland – at least the Saturday until Wednesday part of it – was the first...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Shopping Spree? Nah really…

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I’ve never been all that big on shopping while traveling. If a place is new, I like to get a Christmas ornament. And/or some little tourist ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

St. Giles Cathedral. (“His life was lovely and pleasant and he died in glory.”)

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One of the most enjoyable bits of my trip to Edinburgh was the hour or so I spent wandering around St. Giles, the Church of Scotland’s mothe...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Loch Ness Monster. (Speed, bonny bus.)

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As charming as Edinburgh is, I didn’t want to fully exhaust its charms before my sister and her crew arrived. So I booked a bus tour of the...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Sunday in Edinburgh

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I spent last week vacationing in Scotland, mostly in Edinburgh. I had been there once before, 40+ years ago, and it had not been on my “must...
Friday, June 12, 2015

The Pros and Cons of a Surface Pro 3

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I wasn’t planning on replacing my no-longer-so-trusty laptop the same month as I forked over big bucks for a fancy new smartphone. But there...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

The Quantified Self? As for myself, I much prefer the Qualified Self. Or just the plain old self.

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Years – make that decades – ago, when I worked at the long-defunct First National Bank of Boston, there was a typing pool which, I believe, ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

“Love” for sale

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In the beginning, idols gave autographs. And it was good. At least if you wanted an idol’s autograph. But an autograph, an impersonal touch...