I’m busy dumping old computer files when I came across the email Jennifer sent me with this story. Powerful prose written in her legendary parenthetical style, but this time I’m moved by the similarity between Jennifer’s mother and what I’ve since read of Susan Sontag. Both were unflinching while healthy and both denied their end […]
The last word on Matt’s, now Diane’s, iPhone. After sitting in the snow and slush for two months the only noticeable problem was a quirky keypad. The numbers 4, 5, and 6, when tapped, would register the numbers above or below, unless you hit the center of the desired number and held your finger to […]
Adam alerts me Sunday mornings to worthy reads in the Globe and the online edition of the New York Times. I look forward to his links. This Sunday he asked me if I’d read about Virgin Atlantic’s clubroom at Logan. I hadn’t but promised to have a look inside the Globe Magazine after dinner. As […]
“Pesky Godson of Chicago writes: “I cannot find the words splittist or splittism in my dictionary.”
My nose has driven family and friends crazy over the years. It’s a curse. I can smell a bear a half mile away, garlic on the breath of someone clear across the room, the clashing multiple perfume scents in a theatre. I’ve been known to wake John up in the middle of the night with […]
Some of you will remember the “Wee Beastie” post of two years ago, in which a tree-destroying vehicle shows up on our neighbor’s lawn and the next day begins some deforestation leading up to demolition of their split-level ranch, to be replaced with better, as you’ll see. As I got into my car to go […]
Without a trace of self-consciousness he said, “I am from Iraq,†but the declaration seemed brave to me anyway, as blue as the state through which we drove is. Unless someone’s waiting for you in the terminal, I consider it a ridiculous sign of addiction (or posing) to turn on your cellphone or Blackberry and […]
Once I realized that the sunrise was not at that conjunction but over land, I raced down the beach, but I was too late to see the sun lift off the water. Oh well, there’ll always be another time. The real question is what do I do now that I’m up? I could take pictures […]
We’re back at the Pilgrim Sands in Plymouth. This photo’s from last night and now I’m up waiting for the sunrise hoping for a clear horizon of one the sun can burn off. The above view is northeast from our deck and the overnight guy, who works two jobs, the other in Boston, tells me […]
This morning I checked cnn.com, as I do everyday, and their headline photo showed earthquake damage in St. Louis. Captivated, I read on. The center of the earthquake was 133 miles east of St. Louis. I did the math and wondered why they didn’t say the center’s in Evansville, Indiana or damn close. Christ, why […]
I agree with some of what Louise says about Mark and Ginger’s daughter Molly’s latest play “Travesties,†but if I were writing the review I would have donated more page space to the acting, which to our minds (I’m speaking for Diane too), was extraordinarily good. The best we’ve seen in any of her plays. […]
The rakkities are risking a trip to Italy in May. (Manarola, in Cinqueterre on May 9-12, then Pisa, then Sicily and the Aeolian Islands, May 15-22.) MAY 2008 HEADLINES May 7. Alitalia airlines goes bankrupt, IATA revokes Alitalia’s license before a buyout can occur. Newly elected Prime Minister Berlusconi promises that his government will fix […]