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Wednesday, January 09, 2019

How’s this for a fish story

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I’m always intrigued by those art auctions where paintings go for astronomical prices. Good for the collector/seller. Not much benefit for a...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Bowled over by this excellent job!

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I pay about as much attention to the college football bowls as I do to college football in the regular season. Which is next to none. Oh, on...
Monday, January 07, 2019

Pink Slip mourns as Durgin-Park announces it’s closing

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The first I heard that Durgin-Park was closing came in an email from my brother-in-law. He had seen the transcript of a December Ark Restaur...
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Friday, January 04, 2019

Word.

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Well, the Oxford Dictionaries have spoken, and the word is that their Word of the Year for 2018 is toxic . Works for me, given the level of ...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

The Euro Turns Twenty

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My niece is on a school trip to Russia, and she and a couple of her friends are tacking on a trip to Budapest. Which meant a trip to the ban...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Forget resolutions, I’ve got PLANS for the New Year

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I’ve neve been all that big on new years resolutions. Year after year, there’s some “lose 10 pounds” thang on there. Something about writing...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

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To my way of thinking, there are few Boston sights lovelier than seeing skaters on the Boston Common Frog Pond. Especially when the Christma...
Friday, December 21, 2018

The Heart of the Commonwealth

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When I’m in a different part of the country, and tell someone I’m from Boston, as often as not, they’ll boom out “BAH-stin”. Really? I can p...
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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Take a puff, it’s springtime

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At some point in the next year or so, I’m sure I’ll make a purchase at one of the new Massachusetts marijuana emporiums. There’s one in Leic...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The moral of the story: don’t tear down a Richard Neutra house

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One of my cousins had a perfectly nice Dutch Colonial on a double lot in a highly desirable neighborhood in a suburban town with great schoo...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Shopping with Gwyneth, Part 2

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Yesterday, I window-shopped my way through half of Goop’s Holiday Gift Guides . Talk about mentally exhausting! So much precious Gwyneth-nes...
Monday, December 17, 2018

So many Goop guides, so little time. Part One.

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Twelve days of Christmas? I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t care less about lords a leaping, maids a milking, and a partridge in a pear...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Wonder whether I quit? Figure it out for yourself!

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If my computer had worked on Day One at Wang, I would have used it to type up a resignation letter and high-tailed it out of there. Instead,...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Sister Baby Needs a New Pair of Black Lace-up Shoes

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‘Tis the season when we can expect a lot of heart-tugging and/or feel-good stories in the news. Occasionally there’ll be one involving a hea...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The cat’s out of the bag: we’ve got to stop horsing around

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I’m not overly PC. One of my favorite jokes remains: Q. How do you know Jesus was Irish? A. Who else would be a 33 year old unemployed carpe...
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