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Friday, February 05, 2016

More bookstores on the horizon?

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The big buzz the other day was that Amazon - of all organizations - was planning on opening 300 to 400 bookstores. The source of the rumor w...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

As If I Needed Another Reason to Despise the NFL

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I will admit it: I’m a sports fan. Not a rabid, crazed, live-or-die, obsessional nut case, mind you. But, yes, I’m a bona fide ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2016

You really can't watch a sporting even without rooting for SOMEONE.

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Despite my misgvings about the NFL - and there'll be more on that tomorrow - I'm going to a Super Bowl gatherng on Sunday. Unless ...
Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Cheater pants! Make that cheater bicycle pants.

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Somehow, I suspect that since the first die was cast, cheating - big cheating, little cheating - has plagued sports. Let's face it. Peop...
Monday, February 01, 2016

“Nostalgia Craving” Tourists? Not me...

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The other day, in The Boston Globe , there was an article entitled “ Nostalgia Craving baby boomers are driving tourism .”  Between that an...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Christa McAuliffe, local girl.

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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Hard to believe it's been that long... I am by no means...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Threads

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When I was a girl, back in the buggy-whip days, things other than financial instruments, software, and medical discoveries were made in Mas...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Why drone racing will be more fun than NASCAR

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Until I saw an article about it on Bloomberg, I’d never even heard of drone racing. And my first reaction when I saw the headline about it ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Innocents Abroad, Otto Warmbier Edition

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Otto Warmbier should be back in class, starting the second semester of his junior year at the University of Virginia. Instead, he’s sitting...
Monday, January 25, 2016

"Boston Accent": Thank you, Seth Meyers. This is hilarious.

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A few weeks back, I saw the movie Spotlight (which tells the story of the Boston Globe's  excellent work uncovering the Catholic Chu...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

Ding-Dong, Avon Calling.

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My mother’s friend Helen was an Avon Lady. Many the time I crossed Main Street and pumped up the rickety back stairs in Helen’s three dec...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Best Jobs in America? I've actually had some of them.

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Last night I was ruing my life as a blogger. Surely, I told myself as I struggled to find a topic that would let me keep my one-a-day blogg...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

On behalf of the elderly female population

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Who among us hasn’t, at least on one or two occasions, done something on the job that was incredibly ill-thought-out and/or dunderheaded? S...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

A holdup man named Yosemite Sam…What’s wrong with Jeremy Jacobs, anyway?

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S omewhere along the line – when I was in high school and beyond my prime Looney Tunes watching years – someone gave the Rogers family a bu...