Oct 24 2013
The NSA, we have recently learned, is collecting all sorts of data about all sorts of things, including email accounts. Senders, address lists, subject lines -- it's all fair game. As explained in one Washington Post article, "Taken together…
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Oct 17 2013
My book group has caused me to burst into song -- proving once again that life really IS exactly like musical comedy, only with way slower reaction times.
Oct 11 2013
We need a new toilet. Two, in fact. Which means that I am now confronted with the specter of toilet shopping.
There was certainly a time in my life when news of my toilets' demise would have sent me into…
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Oct 4 2013
We all have our gifts, and here are mine: I write very good thank you notes. I grow really beautiful lettuce. And I can bake any kind of muffin.
I cracked the muffin code in 1987, when I was a…
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Sep 14 2013
The other day, Steve went to the market near his office to buy a few apples. The apples, he reported with dismay, were all from Chile or New Zealand. Why, in New England, in September, would anyone go to the…
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Sep 8 2013
It’s Fashion Week in New York City.
Actually, Fashion Week began last Thursday, a full four days ago – the fact that I am just catching on is proof enough of just how unfashionable I am, here in unfashionable Boston.
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Sep 1 2013
It's Labor Day -- can the Carpool Blues be far behind? Here's another tune from "Songs of Domestic Bliss" -- a hymn for the season.
Click here for listening, lyrics and free download!
Aug 23 2013
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Husband Steve is cavorting with his brothers in the Basque motherland. My older child, a college junior, is leading a group of incoming freshmen on a kayaking expedition in the glorious Pacific Northwest. Child…
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Aug 13 2013
It didn't work out so well for Whitey, either.
A few weeks ago, I posted a blog entry ("Whitey Bulger in the Garden") in which I enthused, rather smugly, about the many strategies I have employed to keep…
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Aug 7 2013
I am sitting in a vacation cottage in Maine, watching the late afternoon sun glint off the water, listening to the calling of the gulls.
It is lovely and peaceful. What a treat to let my mind wander at such…
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Jul 27 2013
Probably my favorite song from "Songs of Domestic Bliss" -- and now with a video, in case you're one of those people who prefers to watch your music rather than just listening. Or you can just listen, on the Music…
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