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Thursday, January 29, 2026

RIP, Circle Furniture

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I was a big fan of Circle Furniture, a small local chain selling interesting, well-designed, decently made, and not crazily expensive furnit...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

M'm! M'm! Good!

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Lunchtime when I was a kid usually meant soup and a sandwich. My mother was a scratch cook, and a fabulous soup-maker, but soup at lunch cam...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Frontrunner? Why yes, yes I am.

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I grew up watching football. Fall Sunday afternoons meant sitting with my father watching the NY Football Giants, wearing Honolulu Blue, fro...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Make that Charlie Avarice. (Fraud, glorious fraud.)

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It's been nearly three years since I (virtually) ran into Charlie Javice. A decade ago, she founded Frank, a startup that helped student...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

2025 is in the books

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I used to be a great reader.  As a kid, I read a book a day. Six was the maximum number of books you could take out of the Worcester Public ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Word nerd

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My mother was anti-swearing. The strongest language I ever heard her use was "Jesus, Mary, Joseph," which she only deployed on the...
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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Battery Up!

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My husband's brother Joe was a wondrous tinkerer, always cooking up some invention to save time, money, energy. A natural engineer, Joe ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

What does it profit a man?

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It really doesn't matter whether it's Mark Zuckerberg or not. It could just as well be Elon Musk. Or Peter Thiel. Or Jeff Bezos. Or ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Let me not to the marriage of true minds...

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A couple of months ago came news out of Japan that a young woman, on the rebound from a bad breakup, had married a "persona named Klaua...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

Assisted living for penguins? Yes!

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Years ago, I saw the March of the Penguins , a documentary about the life of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. Talk about nasty, brutish, ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Using social media for anti-social purposes? Hmmmmm.....

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As far as ICE raids go, Boston hasn't had it as bad as a lot of other places. We have had our moments, of course. There was Rumeysa Oztu...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Merriam-Webster would like a word

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Dictionary.com got there first, posting their Word of the Year in late October. Guess they figured that, even with 2+ months left in the yea...
Thursday, January 01, 2026

Happy New Year! (Happy New Year?)

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I'm glad to see the last of 2025, a tough year in so very many ways.  Most of those ways, of course, have been around our having to witn...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Have yourself a merry little Christmas Tree

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I love putting up my Christmas tree.  Actually, I love having the kid who delivers it on a bicycle put it in the stand for me. What I actual...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

It's not too late to shop the N-M Christmas catalog

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The Neiman Marcus Christmas Book has always been pretty appalling, what with all those unaffordable, unattainable, totally fanciful items Bu...