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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Who said embroidery’s a lost art?

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If you can crochet, you can make an afghan. (Check!) If you can knit, you can make a scarf. (Check!) If you can embroider, you can decorat...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

A gig’s a gig, I guess

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Some of you are no doubt old enough to remember the day, many years ago – way back in 2015 -  when Donald J. Trump famously came down the es...
Monday, May 07, 2018

Cheese it, the Brexiteers!

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I’m a cheese lover, but not a particularly sophisticated one. My favorite cheese is cheddar which, I guess is a taste upgrade from Velveeta,...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Moneybags

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With all the unrelenting bad news out there, it’s nice to read something that – if not good news in any way,shape, or form – is at least dif...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

The Common Good

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Yesterday I saw an article in the Boston Globe about an enterprising fellow in South Boston who was making a bit of side income by AirBnB-i...
Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Hanging by a thread

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Today, we’re expecting the first summer weather of the year. Having to date had only a handful of days that can be categorized as even vagu...
Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Act Globally, Regret Locally

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Many years ago, on a none-too-clean boat touring Donegal Bay, my husband and I sat near a mother with five kids. The youngest was a babe in ...
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Monday, April 30, 2018

America’s Ginsengland stresses out

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I can honestly say that, in my many, many years of life, I have given zero conscious thought to ginseng. If we were playing word-association...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Box Dinner

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I have a friend – quite a good cook, by the way – who a year or so ago signed up for Blue Apron. He and his husband used it for a while. But...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

Five stars! Love, love, love!

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I do a fair amount of online shopping, and I do pay some attention to reviews. If something gets Amazon 1’s across the board, well, I’m prob...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Standing room only?

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Fortunately – or unfortunately – I don’t fly all that often. Unfortunate, in that not flying means I’m not going very many places. Sure, th...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

What’s in a name?

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I decided to take a break from reading about Trump’s mendacity, his venality, his dangerous lack of impulse control, his fecklessness, his r...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Forget ‘where’s the beef?’ It’s going to be ‘where’s the heme?’

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I read somewhere that the food missed the most by former carnivores who’d converted to vegetarianism is bacon. I can see that. But I’m guess...
Friday, April 20, 2018

This price ain’t right

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My doctor recently advised me to get a shot for pneumonia. I’m over 65. I volunteer in a homeless shelter. And I’ve had two pretty formidabl...
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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Got the blues? Got the reds? Got the Yinmins?

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My favorite color is now and always has been blue. Maybe it’s because I was the blue-eyed tow-head who – when the clothing wasn’t hand-me-do...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

On the 18th of April in ‘75…

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I had something else lined up for today’s post, but then presidential historian Michael Beschloss tweeted out this image – Grant Wood’s “The...