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Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Appropriation

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Banana Republic is selling hijabs, joining a growing list of consumer goods companies coming out with products aimed at Muslim women. The he...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

I see them here, I see them there. Floss picks are everywhere!

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A few years back, it was the nip bottle. Raspberry Stoli. Fireball Whisky. And it was on the Cape, in Wellfleet. My sister Kath and her frie...
Monday, August 05, 2019

What I learned in kindergarten (and it wasn’t much)

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Brookline is an affluent near-suburb of Boston. If you look at it on the map, it looks more like a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by B...
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Friday, August 02, 2019

It’s National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. (Can’t wait to lick my fingers…)

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Somehow, I missed out on National Ice Cream Day, which was celebrated on July 21st. Given that, in my view, a day without ice cream is like ...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

Take my piano, please!

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I’m sure  you’ve heard it said  - especially if you’re an old fogey who is actually in possession of some of it – that nobody (other than th...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

One more tale from the gig economy

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For the past 15 years, I’ve been a full-fledged member of the gig economy. Why I do believe I joined up even before the term was invented. W...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

“The original search engine”

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For years  - well beyond the point where anyone who lives in my building was interested in them – Yellow Pages were delivered (or perhaps fo...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Go fund yourself, Amanda

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You remember Amanda Knox. She’s the young American semester-abroad student who spent time in prison in Italy for murdering her roommate. (Th...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Hot town, summer in the city

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Last Friday, the first day of an intense heat wave, I got out and did the stuff I needed to do early. I got to the gym, to lunch with an old...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

My word!

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Looking for a time waster? I’ve got an excellent one for you: The Merriam Webster Time Traveler , which provides a look at the first known u...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Tide getting clothes cleaner, one locker full at a time

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I grew up in a Tide household and, until a recent conversion to Persil prompted largely by the fact that the hardware/general store on Charl...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Stone carvers wanted

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I read the other day that Notre Dame Cathedral almost didn’t survive the April fire. But it did. And while “still in a precarious state” (i....
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Has the world really been demanding Forever Charmin?

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Sometimes I get why certain ads pop up when I’m scrolling through my Twitter feed. Techie stuff. (I do a lot of searching for info related t...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Men on the moon, women on the sewing machines

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Fifty years ago tomorrow, the first men landed on the moon. I was watching I was 19, working as a waitress at Big Boy’s for the summer, but ...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Etiquette in the weeds

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It was, I suppose, inevitable. The onslaught of marijuana-related books. Nearly a decade back, there was the more or less discreetly titled ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

And the hellscape just keeps getting hellscapier

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A few weeks ago, I saw a YouTube clip of a giant rat climbing a pole in a NYC subway car. So okay. Maybe it wasn’t a giant rat, just a plane...
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