Here’s the heist: the perpetrator watches you (with eyes or camera) as you enter a code to unlock your iPhone. He/she/they then steals your phone, uses your code to unlock it, and further deploys your code to lock you out…
It’s dense where I live, in the middle of Boston. We can get pretty much anything we need within a 10-minute walk. The exception is fish: good seafood is hard to come by in our neighborhood. So we get a…
It is late afternoon on a weekend in mid-November and I am savoring the solitude. It’s been a busy month, with back-to-back trips for work, family events, and fun, followed immediately by houseguests. Delightful, all of it; but I am…
This will be short: I have only a few minutes to write, while the lemons I’ve just blanched are still piping hot. When they’ve cooled enough to handle, I’ll slice them, pack them in salt, and set them aside to…
I have been baking sourdough bread since the last millennium, long before it became the hip COVID lockdown hobby. Over the past three decades I’ve gotten pretty good at it, if I may say so myself, my weekly loaves both…
In these last two years of dislocation and loss, I have practiced a lot of yoga. Woven throughout have been two central themes of any meditative practice: non-attachment and gratitude. We are happier and better people when we can be…
My husband was supposed to go on a long-planned deep-sea fishing trip, and I was supposed to go to a conference on the other side of the country. Then he…
This Mother’s Day, Boston has given me a beautiful bouquet of flowering trees.
It’s been a cool spring, and the trees have been in bloom for longer than usual, a real treat. I can’t see these particular flowering cherries without…