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Tuesday, July 09, 2019

Where the Wild Things Are

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Polar bears are breaking into Siberian apartment buildings looking for food. Cougars out West are mauling runners who’re encroaching on thei...
Monday, July 08, 2019

$56M for the lawyers, $2M for the laid-off Toys ‘r Us employees. This seems about right.

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I saw the other day that a few Toys R Us stores are going to be re-opening. Actually, it’s not even a few. It’s two. And they’re going to be...
Friday, July 05, 2019

Time off for good behavior

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I was going to do a post riffing on my father’s day-after-the-Fourth bon mot that the summer’s all down hill from here. Frankly, other than...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

Fingers crossed that this year’s Fourth doesn’t turn inglorious

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I’m not much for prayers, but, if I were the praying type, I would normally have been praying for fair weather today across the country. So ...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Go nuts for donuts

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I follow @OnlyInBOS on Twitter. It’s no great shakes – as we used to say (only in Worcester?)  – but they do come up with an occasional tidb...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

How do you get from here to there?

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I have absolutely no sense of direction. If two roads diverged in yellow wood, and one path led to where I wanted to get to, and the other w...
Monday, July 01, 2019

Myrtle the Turtle

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When I first knew my husband, many decades back (late 1970’s), he lived in a dump of an apartment that overlooked a dump of a playground. We...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Fifty Years On

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Last weekend, I went to a lovely party celebrating the 50th anniversary of two of my friends from high school. This was an all-girls high sc...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Encore, encore! Everett needs a new pair of shoes.

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Last Sunday, a new luxury hotel/resort opened in Everett, a gritty, down at the heels, blue collar town just outside of Boston. Of course, n...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

For shame! (Or not.)

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Boston recently went to a BYOB – bring your own bag – system. I’ve been mostly BYOB-ing for a few years, so it hasn’t been a big deal. Occas...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

A fly went by

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For the past few weeks, I was plagued by a fly. It could, of course, have been far worse. I’ve had mice on occasion. Mice, of course, don’t ...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

GE: we bring a hilarious tutorial video to life

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Instructional videos on YouTube are often quite, well, instructional. In the good ones, someone who knows what they’re doing patiently and s...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Now, for some fun news on the baseball (sorta) front

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Assuming the rain clears, tonight I’ll be going to my second game of the Red Sox so-far-so-not-so-good season. My first game, on Patriots Da...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Um. I’m not exactly a libertarian, but shouldn’t the market be taking care of this?

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A new regulation just went into effect in the U.K., banning advertisements that use gender stereotypes. So no more ads depicting: Men unable...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Juneteenth

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I’m not sure when I first heard of Juneteenth. Probably when Ralph Ellison’s novel of the same name was published. That was in 1999. God kno...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Gaten Matarazzo is only 16, but it’s time for him to grow up

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I don’t watch Stranger Things , which Gaten Matarazzo stars in, so I only know him as the astonishingly annoying smartest-kid-in-the-neighbo...
Monday, June 17, 2019

How the Millennials are making the world a better place. (Think bigger, move faster!)

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I’m super-hoping that the millennials will save us from ourselves. That they will rise up and do something about climate change. That they w...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Those oldies but goodies

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While I was poking around to learn a bit about King Arthur Flour, which I blogged about the other day, I came across a piece on American com...