Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?
Few people know that when I was young, I was a serious coin collector. From age six until 25, I collected Mercury dimes. Fun fact: The Mercury dime was minted between 1916 and 1945. It […]
Year: 2023
In National Haiku-Writing Month, Focus is Important
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Jayne Eisenstadt will be the first to admit that she’s not the world’s hardest-working writer. “I took an independent study because I get freaked out by the deadlines in creative writing classes,” she […]
For Comic Sans-O-Phobes, Type of Narrator a Deal-Breaker
WATERTOWN, Mass. Brick-and-mortar bookstores, long predicted to be on their deathbeds due to the growing market power of on-line sellers, are on life support these days due to an unexpected shot-in-the-arm from an unlikely vaccine: audio […]
Wake Me Up When Valentines Day Is Over
Note: I stumbled upon this post from 2006 recently, and thought it gave an interesting look at my viewpoint at the time–after my first marriage, but before my second. In other words, I’m much happier […]
Do Canadians Really Exist?
Do Canadians really exist? Is there really such a whimsical folk who believe in such things as mounted police, plaid shirts, and wood burning stoves? Or are they simply a product of someone’s over-inventive fantasy? […]
