For over a year now, all the lighting consultants from Boston to Providence – over 35 of us — have been working on a lighting festival for Boston, christened illuminaleBOSTON08. Patterned after Luminale, a much bigger festival accompanying a massive, every-two-years trade show in Frankfurt, ours was originally slated to coincide with the May 2008 […]
Tricia and I recently popped in on my parents to see how they’re doing, lend a hand about the house and yard, amble through a few galleries, and sample the ample takeout opportunities of the southwest. Just a quick visit, bracketing a weekend a few days either side. But always with time for a few […]
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 […]
Dear Mr. Miller, Nice day for one — I hope you were out, too, ideally at the beach of which you recently spoke. I posted some pics. Your Humble Servant, A.K.
 Here you will find a selection from my camera (some by Bill).
I hadn’t meant to stay. Actually, I had meant to miss this by hours — Michael hinted that Hil B would be in appropriate garb at the one-minute-after-midnight Sudbury Paperstore long-awaited sale of the last in the Harry Potter series, so Tricia and I swung by about 7:30. Kinda forlorn actually, and after a nice […]
The captain stood there with his arms crossed looking upwards. “Doesn’t look safe. I wouldn’t do it.†His men silently nodded knowing assent; my confident explanations fell on deaf ears. We said a few more words, but I wasn’t inherently their problem — there was no fire, and slowly they drifted away, back to their […]
Maybe because I’d worked there before and had a dim memory for a prompt, or maybe just from a lucidity I could have used a few minutes earlier as foresight, I knew instantly what we’d done. In very tall spaces such as this, smoke detection as part of a fire alarm system usually takes the […]
Many years ago I was privileged to work on relighting The Church of the Covenant on Newbury Street in Boston. It boasts some of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s finest windows, as well as a gorgeous and monumental chandelier, which — if I recall correctly – was his first light fixture. It hangs at the crux of […]
For Michael. From a story in today’s Boston Globe on the Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain – 18 men and one woman — and their weekly Thursday night gathering at Jame’s Gate Restaurant to share words on their craft over beers.  Too Slow for Demolition by William Thibodeau  These days I still do […]
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