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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Glad it’s finally catching up with them

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Last week, five people – all former Insys Therapeutics execs- were convicted: …of racketeering conspiracy for bribing doctors to prescribe a...
Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Let them serve cake

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By any reasonable standards, Nancy Saltzman is a smart cookie and an accomplished professional. She’s an Amherst grad with a law degree from...
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Monday, May 06, 2019

Joan of Leeds: you go, girl!

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I am a 16 year product of Catholic schooling, all at the hands of the same order of nuns. When I was really little – third grade, the year w...
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Friday, May 03, 2019

I’ve got a horse right here…

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Well, tomorrow is the running of the 145th Kentucky Derby. As usual, I will not be donning a big hat or flowing, flowery dress. I will not b...
Thursday, May 02, 2019

There’s nooo business like shoe business

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Massachusetts has never exactly been an industrial powerhouse. The Commonwealth has never been a Pennsylvania, an Ohio, a Michigan. But when...
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

And, now, for the anti-foodies out there

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There’s so much foodie in the air these days. Farm to table. Nose to tail. Foam this. Nasturtium that. Vegan. Fregan. Oat milk. Sustainably,...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Cassowary for sale

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There’s something to be said for dying while doing something you love, and that’s what happened a few weeks ago to a Florida fellow. Marvin ...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Make new colleagues but keep the old

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I had lunch last week with four former colleagues. We had last worked together more than twenty years ago, but had all stayed in light conta...
Friday, April 26, 2019

According to Webster…

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I enjoy seeing the words that Merriam-Webster adds to the dictionary each year. While I’m not exactly a stan - “an extremely or excessively...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Why buy the suit when the body’s free?

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I saw my doctor the other day. As I expected, other than for a few mechanical difficulties – one quasi-frozen shoulder, two creaky knees, an...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Hey, Culligan! A dog in your ad named Maureen????

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I was only half paying attention to the Culligan ad. That is until I heard my name. I looked up. Oh, the young woman in the ad is named Maur...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

I’m gonna get on my pony and ride

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My sister Kath, who has a keen eye for the cultural oddity (both home and abroad) pointed me towards a fairly peculiar Finnish subculture th...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Cycling back into jeans? Guess I’m fashion forward for a change

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In high school, I wore denim Bermuda-length shorts and wheat jeans. In college, I wore bell bottom hip huggers – sometimes hemmed with a fan...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Let them eat vegan cake, while sitting in a terrarium next to a former homeless encampment

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My friend John, who keeps his eyes and ears on the zeitgeist, blogged the other day on a new restaurant in Toronto. The title of his post – ...
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Dear John Henry: A Modest Proposal

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It’s Thursday evening, and I’m doing what any Boston sports fan would be doing on a night when she wanted to avoid the talking political hea...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Internet goes black hole on Katie Bouman

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I’m by no means a science buff. I keep a vague eye on breakthrough news, but I don’t live for it, and seldom get too excited about it. But i...