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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Seriously, Maureen Lipman? Seriously?

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There's a film under development about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Helen Mirren is playing Meir.  I love Helen Mirre...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Influencers marooned? Let them influence their way out.

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The pandemic has been hard on everyone, especially the young folks.  One thing for us old geezers to have to hunker down and stare out the w...
Friday, January 07, 2022

Another year of living covidly

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Like pretty much everyone else, as we enter our third covid year, I've had it. Which seems like a pretty ridiculous and self-centered t...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Dashing through the door...

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I'm not a DoorDash user.  It's not that I don't order takeout. It's that I'm either ordering from a place that's wit...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Thanks for the invite, Ben Carson

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On Christmas Eve, my mail included a handful of Christmas cards, and a wonderful package from none other than Ben Carson. Ben and I, as you ...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2022

Yankee Candle: the canary in the covid coalmine

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When I worked full time, I always found myself sucked in to buying whatever was being flogged by the kids' schools of my colleagues. Thu...
Monday, January 03, 2022

My hopes for 2022

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I'm not a high hopes kind of gal.  Not me.  On the continuum, I fall somewhere between guaradedly optimistic and guardedly pessissmistic...
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Friday, December 24, 2021

O Christmas Tree, My Christmas Tree

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I'm not all that wild about Christmas. It's fine, but I'm not gaga over it. I see my friends and family pretty regularly, anyway...
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Thursday, December 23, 2021

Merry Goopness, Gwyneth Paltrow

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Yesterday's virtual window shopping stroll was through the Neiman-Marcus Fantasy Gifts catalogue. Today, I thought we'd tone it down...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

N-M Fantasy Catalogue's thinner this year - but still plenty cray

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One of my Christmas traditions is thumbing (virtually) through the Neiman-Marcus Fantasy Gifts (virtual) catalog . What's on offer is ne...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Thank you, Judge Colleen McMahon

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Pharmaceutical companies are a decidedly mixed bag of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good is that they, of course, produce drugs that ...
Monday, December 20, 2021

In the midst of plenty, school teachers have to resort to this

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A week or so ago, something rolled by me on Twitter that I found quite disturbing. And heartbreaking. The tweet held a link to a video of so...
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Friday, December 17, 2021

Tummy tuck vs. brain surgery? Which should be the priority? Hmmmm...

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The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), the union which represents the nursing staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is asking the ...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Well, they do say you eat a peck of dirt before you die

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I suspect that Multi Level Marketing (MLM) schemes have been around forever.  I'll even bet that back in the day, Ugga was going cave to...