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Friday, August 11, 2017

Happy Working Wanderers (Valderi, valdera!)

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I’ve been to Germany several times, but most of my time has been spent in cities, not tootling around the countryside. So I can’t say that I...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Food spies

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No doubt about it, food poisoning is pretty miserable. For Mitchell Weinberg, it was a bad bowl of ice cream that did it. Bad bowl of ice c...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Fun-gineer? You call THAT a vocation?

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When I was growing up, vocation meant one thing and one thing only. It meant religious vocation to become a nun, a priest, or a brother. We ...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna

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When I was in Ireland this past spring, we went through the town of Lisdoonvarna, County Clare. I was familiar with the town, which is well...
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Monday, August 07, 2017

Acapulco Gold Rush Town?

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As headlines go, it’s hard to top “Cannabis Grower Buys California Town to Build Pot-Friendly Outpost.” Nipton, California – population 20...
Friday, August 04, 2017

Damn, wish I’d remembered to be a genius entrepreneur

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If you do any spending on the Internet – and that would be pretty much everyone – you’ve no doubt used Stripe. Unlike the flashy consumer-fa...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

How does your garden grow?

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For nearly 10 years, I worked for a company with offices in the Alewife section of Cambridge. There wasn’t a ton out there. The most notable...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Work-Life Imbalance

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I saw an interesting article on Ladders on a new trend in the job application process: prospective employers sussing out whether their pros...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Quiz kids

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Somehow, in the last week or so, I’ve found myself taking three online quizzes (on zoo.com ) that claim that, after I’ve answered a series o...
Monday, July 31, 2017

NASCAR/Nascar spins out

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A couple of weeks ago, I had a nice Sunday morning visit with a friend who came into town with her two little ones – a two-year-old and a so...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Roomba: hoovering up your personal info

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God knows, I’m no futurist, but many years ago I was on a panel at a tech conference and a question posed to the panelists was what we thoug...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Chip in the old block

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I remember the first place where I had to punch in using a time card: H.H. Brown Shoe Company, where I worked one summer on the shop floor h...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Geriactives? Nyppies? Talking ‘bout my generation.

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Born in December 1949, I’m an early wave Baby Boomer, part of the vast cohort born between 1946 (when my parents had their first child) and ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

The Open Book (I can dream, can’t I?)

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I know a lot of writers. And plenty more readers. This past weekend was spent in the company of a number of my most beloved among them, and ...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Haters gotta hate (by state, state, state)

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There really is an app for everything and everyone. And for singles who want to connect with people who share the same antipathies they do,...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Poor Chipotle! No wonder I Boloco…

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Although I’ve eaten there a number of times, and my food has always been fine, I’m not the biggest Chipotle fan on the face of the earth. Bu...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

That does it (or, suffering from technology fatigue)

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Every once in a while, I see a headline that stops me dead in my very tracks. That was my reaction when I saw this one the other day on Bloo...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Downtown, things will be great when you’re downtown.

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I’m a city girl. Always have been, and most likely always will be. I do have suburban experience, however, having worked for a few years he...
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