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Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Berries to new-style strawberries

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Life if full of little disappointments, and one of those little disappointments is biting into a big, red strawberry and finding that what l...
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Monday, November 05, 2018

You oughta be in pictures. Your kids? Maybe not so much.

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I don’t have much to do with Facebook, and nothing to do with Insta. On FB, I’m basically there to see what’s up with my friends’ kids, gra...
Friday, November 02, 2018

Snap decision?

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Two months ago, Kristen O’Hara left her prime job at Time-Warner, where she worked for 14 years. O’Hara had been the Chief Marketing Office ...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

So long, Whitey. And good riddance…

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Yesterday brought the news that Whitey Bulger is dead. The plot twist here is that an 89-year-old man with heart disease didn’t die of natur...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Night of the Butterfingers

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I’ve always enjoyed Halloween. As a kid, what was there not to like? Out at night, roaming around, unsupervised, with a bunch of other kid...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

What price environmental virtue?

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On the continuum of environmental virtue, I’m in an okay place. I walk a lot. And use public transpo. But I also take Uber. And a couple of...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Well, if NPR says so…

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I went to Hoboken once. In 1972. A group of us Columbia grad school adventurers decided that we’d had it with life bounded by West 95th (wh...

Yes!

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Don’t blame us if we ever doubt ya, You know we couldn’t live without ya. Boston, you are the only, only, o-only… ---------------------...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Bloomer Girl!

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Last Saturday, I went to a wedding in Orange County, New York, and spent the night in the city of Middletown. I had never heard of Middleto...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

The open plan office is about to get even worse (if that’s at all possible)

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“Wow, I’m so excited that we’re going to move to an open-plan office workspace,” said no one in the history of work. I’ve never worked in a...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Well, well, wellness

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There’s wellness, and then there’s wellness . In the former category, I’d put my flu shot and Fitbit. In the latter category, while I don’t ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

October’s Bright Blue Weather. (A baseball story.)

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Although the last couple of days have fit the bill, today isn’t much of an example of October’s bright blue weather. Overcast and maybe even...
Monday, October 22, 2018

How now brown cow?

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A survey that may or may not have been conducted by the ghost of H.L. Mencken – the survey was commissioned by an outfit called the Innovati...
Friday, October 19, 2018

See you in court!

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I went to small claims court once. I was in college. It was a landlord thing. “They” didn’t show. My roommate and I did. So we got the $200...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

“Girl with Balloon”? Can someone please explain the art world to me????

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There are some things in life that I just plain old don’t get. Right on top of that list I’d have to place Banksy. Actually, it’s not Bank...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Mouse in the house!

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In the first 26 years I lived in my condo, I had one mouse experience. Then last fall, after the building next year had a fire, I had a mous...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Sears limps closer to its final finish line

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Sears wasn’t a supreme presence in my life growing up. I don’t recall that there was a physical Sears retail presence in Worcester until th...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Chole’s stocking was hung by the chimney with care.

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Even though the stores are all candy-corned up at present, it’s never to early to think about Christmas. Thus, although I never order anythi...