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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

May be the best thing Walmart has ever done

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Of course, I'd love to have a Birkin bag. Of course, I wouldn't pay $28K for it (on top of the $100K or so I'd have to spend at ...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Take me riding in the car, car

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I'm someone who has always enjoyed driving - at least once I got my license nearly 60 years ago. Or I used to enjoy driving. In the past...
Monday, February 03, 2025

Something to be said for dying doing that you love

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Well, there I was, just the other day, excoriating the parents who took their eye off their toddler while they were volcano-touristing at Ki...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Parent of the Year?

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Tis the season when all sorts of "of the year's" have been coming out. Since we're now one month into 2025, most of the ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

That's a wrap?

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I don't generally end up with organic food in my grocery cart. Sometimes I get a bit pious and buy Bell & Evans chicken, grass-fed o...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The bird is the word

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I'm writing this on December 28th. You're reading it on January 28th. In that month in between, I know that some awful things have h...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Beware of hero worship

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It's not that it's a big surprise when a someone you admire turns out to be a behind-the-scenes POS.  For me, the someones I admire ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

How could you NOT love this story?

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I love, love, love this story, which ran as a heart-warming non-Christmas tale in the Boston Globe on Chrismtas morning.   Tim Almeida is a...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Anyone surprised by this?

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Twenty-some years ago, when I began driving up to Syracuse on business a few times a year, the thruway in Upstate New York was packed with W...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Bottom of the barrel at Cracker Barrel

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Although I've been to a Cracker Barrel a couple of times, I'll never be a regular.  There aren't many around here The calories I...
Monday, January 20, 2025

God help us...

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  There are no words, other than to say that this occurs on the day on which we honor Martin Luther King makes today an especial form of tra...
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Thursday, January 16, 2025

And yet another good idea

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In my personal life, I have known only a couple of people who've been in prison. One was a childhood neighbor (kiddie porn on this hard ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Now here's an idea!

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Throughout my career, I invariably worked for organizations that were in perpetual reorgnization mode. The word "reorganize" was a...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Unmade Men

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Like pretty much every city of any size in the Northeast (and the Midwest, for that matter), my hometown of Worcester had it's share of ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Sugaring Off

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We're still a month or so away from sugaring off season, when New England's maple trees are tapped and the sap boiled down to make m...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Way to wreck your college career - and maybe even beyond - Greyhounds!

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Didn't a college prank used to be a panty raid or stealing a traffic cone? One Christmas, at my all women's Catholic college in the ...