Me and My Small Talker
It was Thursday night, which meant the countdown had begun for a polite Saturday dinner party at which I’ll have to make small talk, an activity I’m ill-equipped to engage in by both nature and nurture. “What […]
It was Thursday night, which meant the countdown had begun for a polite Saturday dinner party at which I’ll have to make small talk, an activity I’m ill-equipped to engage in by both nature and nurture. “What […]
WORCESTER, Mass. Guy DuBois, the creative accountant who first brought the principles of Absurdism to the traditionally-staid realm of double-entry bookkeeping, died yesterday after a brief illness at the Fagerquist Senior Living Center here. He […]
“Wow–pretty wild about Bill Gates,” I said to my wife. “What?” “Apparently his wife is divorcing him because of his wild lifestyle.” “Wild like how?” “Nude swimming parties with strippers. Apparently he’s been a total […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Maggie Turbek is a writing coach who learned the hard way the perils of caring too much. “I turned in a magazine article a day late because I wasted a whole Sunday on a nuclear […]
NAPLES, Florida. This sun-splashed city on the west coast of Florida is a curious mixture of permanent and seasonal residents, with luxury cars idling on eight-lane highways next to “trucks driven by rednecks hauling watermelons” […]
My son once gave me as a present a “one-size fits all” Boston Red Sox hat. It was a nice gesture, but hopelessly misguided. I was able to use the occasion as a “teaching moment.” […]
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to 1,905 dead people. The Boston Globe It was one of those miscues that causes you, in retrospect, to slam your palm to your forehead and […]
High school graduation time is here, which means that over-achieving young women across America are preparing for the next phase of their lives–matriculation (which is not as painful as it sounds) at an expensive four-year […]
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen had “to hold really still whilst makeup was applied to her armpits.” The Boston Herald It was 6:30 a.m., and my CD player-alarm clock sounded the opening notes of Albeniz’s “Asturias,” […]
Sometimes, it takes a tragedy to change the way we view the world. For me, it was the story of David Sharp. Sharp was a climber in distress who died 300 feet from the summit […]