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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Pat Fight!

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Oh, I’m quite sure that, come next Saturday night, I’ll be tuning in and watching at least part of the Patriots vs.Tennessee playoff game. A...
Monday, January 08, 2018

If ever there were an argument for a steep inheritance tax

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https://www.gq.com/story/wyatt-koch-billionaire-ridiculous-shirts Just before Christmas, in a nice little gift to snarky bloggers everywher...
Friday, January 05, 2018

The Devil-Doll, or Doobie-Doobie-Doo

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When I was growing up, late winter afternoons – in the time between coming in red-cheeked and snot-nosed from skating or sledding, and suppe...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

Have a Techie 2018

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I recently worked on a couple of 2018 tech trends pieces for clients. One was a look at software applications in a specific vertical. The ot...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

It’s only words. (More of the words of the year.)

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Yesterday, Pink Slip had its take on feminism, Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2017. What else made the list, which is based on t...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Word of the Year? Feminist? Why not?

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The Oxford Dictionary declared youthquake their word for 2017. I don’t recall hearing it during the past year, but apparently it was popula...
Monday, January 01, 2018

Brrrrrr…..Enter 2018!

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Usually at this time of year, the temperature’s somewhere in the 30’s. If and when it gets too high, the big worry is that the ice sculpture...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Christmas 2017

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And so, once again, it is Christmas, time for the three F’s and a W. That’s Family, Friends, Food, and Wine. I’ve been doing lots of Christ...
Friday, December 22, 2017

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas tree…NOT!

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A few weeks ago, I blogged about this year’s Christmas tree shortage, which I figured – correctly – was not really impacting New England, s...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

I think I’ll rebrand myself as a bitcoin company

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Admittedly,there are more Google hits for pure unadulterated “bitcoin” – 280,000,000 – than there are for “bitcoin tulip” (532,000) or “bitc...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Not so smart luggage

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Twenty+ years back, I decided to replace my luggage. I had a few pieces of matching Lark, in a very nice blue-grey, and they were still in g...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

I swear. (Remind me to stay out of Virginia.)

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My mother didn’t approve of foul language. Thus, by and large, she didn’t approve of her five children. Whenever one of us – as adults, min...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Chef of the Future

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Although I do watch “reality” TV, I don’t go in for the food shows. Oh, I used to watch the one where Gordon Ramsay barged around yelling at...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Cereal cafes? Really? Cereal cafes?

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As a Baby Boomer, I must say I enjoy seeing the millennials replace as as everyone’s target  - good, bad, and indifferent: consumer  sweepin...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

My shopping’s done, and then this. Darn!

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Many years ago, there was an ad campaign for business-friendly Massachusetts that used a jingle about “making it in Massachusetts.” Most of...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The rest of the Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gifts

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The Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gift list is just so long and lush, I had to devote two posts to it. More or less as a public service, mind you. ...