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Thursday, October 06, 2016

A tisket, a tasket, a Rolls-Royce picnic basket

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As I near the first anniversary of my condo reno, it occurs to me that it has also been quite a while since wrote a large check or made a ma...
Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Who’d want to be in Pascal Duvier’s shoes? Not moi.

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I don’t pay any special degree of attention to the Kardashians. I know enough about them to know that there are a lot of them, and that all ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Ever wonder where all that donated clothing ends up?

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Like most Americans, I have way too much clothing. When I stopped working fulltime, I cleared out a lot of my business clothing. And I stopp...
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Monday, October 03, 2016

Hub fan bids Papi adieu

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There’s a classic John Updike essay that appeared in The New Yorker more than 50 years ago. In “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”, Updike chronicled ...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Give me your tired, your rich, your not so huddled masses yearning to EB

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In 1990, the US put a bit of pay-for-play into law by instituting the EB-5 visa program, under which foreign nationals can get themselves an...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Drought bogging you down?

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I had a recent conversation with a gym pal who’d just returned from a vacation camping trip to South Dakota. She told me that she’d been tal...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

I sure don’t blame them, but…

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A couple of years ago, the Unitarian Universalist Association sold their property on Beacon Hill and decamped to another part of town. Part ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The Leaning Tower of San Francisco

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By the year 2100, the area where I live will be under water. Fortunately for me, I will be long gone. Not only will I have cagily sold my c...
Monday, September 26, 2016

You Ain’t Nothin’ But a Hound dog

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Last Friday, Bruce Springsteen was on Stephen Colbert to promote his new book, Born To Run . Colbert’s show takes place in the Ed Sullivan T...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Do the laws of supply and demand not apply to the food industry?

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Well, Mario Batali’s Eataly is coming to Boston. For those not among the cognoscenti, Eataly (great name, by the way), is an Italian markep...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Onward, Introverts!

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I was going to use “Onward, INTJ’s” as my title, but then somehow I came across an online argument about whether NPD’s (i.e, those with Narc...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

“Ten Restaurants that Changed America”

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Not that I was ever a foodie, but back in the day my husband and I did a lot of eating out, and a lot of that eating out was done at high-en...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Just in case you were wondering: an update on Nubrella

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Since I’ve now been blogging for a full decade, I frequently see news stories that update news stories I posted about in the way back. The ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Fill ‘er up

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My father was a good one for taking the family out for a spin, and on many of those spins, we headed west, out of Worcester, on Route 9. On ...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Wanted Dead or Alive

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I grew up in The Great Age of the TV Western. There were just too many to list, from those oriented just for kids (like Fury and Range Ride...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

What not to do at work

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My first thought was that it was hard to believe that there are folks so unenlightened that they need the advice from Liz Ryan on Forbes con...