So yeah it’s a mess in here…
October 19, 2010
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
You know when your friend comes over and you’re still in your yoga pants (the ones you walk the dog in, not the ones you actually exercise in; those haven’t been out of your drawer in weeks) and your hair is in some weird Pebbles top-knot because you haven’t showered and you’re all like, No! Come...
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A brief note from an unpleasant person
June 13, 2010
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
I know, you’ve been sick with worry—where have I been? How goes my quest to get to all 50 states before I turn 50?
The answer, dear readers, is that I published a book – nothing as fabulous as The 50th State will be – but a book nonetheless, a privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
But...
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Tracy and Teddy and The Boston Globe
September 23, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages, The Way We Live Now
A couple of weeks ago, I did something I haven’t done for ages and ages – sat down and read The Boston Globe from cover to cover.
It was a dark Saturday morning, pouring rain from the edge of some tropical depression or another (Bill? Dennis?) that was passing by. Ted Kennedy had already had...
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(A Few) Headlines from Hell
July 17, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Today the Boston Globe reported that unemployment in Massachusetts
is as bad as it’s been since September of 1992.
Coincidentally, September of 1992 was when I was laid off from the last full-time job I had, as a reviews editor at Lotus Magazine.
T and I were on vacation in the Adirondaks...
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Travel Stunts from Days of Yore
June 09, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Here’s a 50th State-appropriate tidbit ganked in its entirety from The Writer’s Almanac. I like the bit about women getting “worked up” at more than 20 mph.
It was on this day in 1909 that the first woman to drive across the United States, Alice Huyler Ramsey, left New York City for San...
