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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Tercentennial. (Happy 300th to Worcester.)

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Today's a big day out in The Heart of the Commonwealth. Worcester, Massachusetts, is turning the Big 3-0-0.  The municipality, named aft...
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Monday, June 13, 2022

FORE, you mashie-niblicks!

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Other than mini-golf, I've never played golf. I don't watch golf, either. Just not my jam. But golf was a part of my childhood and y...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Con artists

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Remember Anna Delvey? (Nee: Anna Sorokin.) She's the con artist who, parading around as a German heiress, managed to defraud banks, hote...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

A farewell to clam strips

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Well, after nearly a century of offering hungering wayfarers a mediocre dining experience, the last Howard Johnson's restaurant - the La...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2022

I love this story (Ho Hey)

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There's a Walgreens near Downtown Crossing in Boston that I walk by all the time.  I seldom go in. Mostly I try to go to my wonderful lo...
Tuesday, June 07, 2022

Buffalo gal

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I've been to a few of our National Parks, and they're all amazingly beautiful. They're also amazingly wild. And that makes them ...
Monday, June 06, 2022

Hope this brings a tiny bit of comfort. (God help us.)

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The only casket I ever went shopping for was my mother's. I had company: my siblings. We went to the showroom at the funeral parlor - O...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Conjure this!

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Even though there's a local-ish connection, I have no recall of the movie The Conjuring whatsoever. It came out in 2013, when I had bet...
Thursday, June 02, 2022

"The heart wants what the heart wants."

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Honestly and truly. I am really trying to deaccession, not acquire. Honesty. Truly. I'm 72. I. Do. Not. Need. More. Stuff.  But sometime...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Last pay phone in NYC

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I read the other day that the last public payphone in New York City has been decommissioned. It's the final chapter in a saga that's...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Train up a child...

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The week before the murderous spree at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Daniel Defense - makers of the assault rifle used for th...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

A little walk through Memorial Day posts past

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Today is Memorial Day. Start of summer, etc. Maybe/maybe not think about those who've served. I've had plenty to say about Memorial ...