The Place to Take a Humor Break
EVANSTON, Ill. When he retired from writing last year, Charles McClatchey had won every prize and award given to authors of children’s books both here and in England, including the Newbery Medal, the Caldecott Medal […]
An Art Degree Could Give You a Leg Up on the Robots Submishmash, linking to article on Quartz “Thanks, but I’m actually dating Julio. And Evan.” We were sitting in Life Drawing 101 when […]
It’s been a long winter without much of a spring in New England, and I was beginning to get worried about the malaise that Spot–the dog puppet you may remember from Pets.com commercials–had fallen into. He’s usually a […]
You know the problem. You’ve found a man who is fun to be with and could be “The One,” but there’s that little something about him that holds you back from true love and long-term […]
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WELLESLEY FALLS, Mass. In this affluent suburb of Boston, parents will go to great lengths to ensure that their children get into a good college, even paying top dollar to “college coaches” who counsel the kids on […]
We were almost done signing the updated estate planning documents we’d put off for so long. In the course of a move we found our wills in a file cabinet and, after reading them, saw […]
BROOKLINE, Mass. This overwhelmingly liberal community is situated just west of Boston’s Kenmore Square, a proximity that sometimes makes for uncomfortable encounters between drunken sports fans and nightclub habitues to the east and more pacific […]
As she lay upon her sofa, gasping, Florence Nightingale devoured blue-books, dictated letters, and, in the intervals of her palpitations, cracked her febrile jokes. Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey Thank you, thank you . . . […]
A mastery of poetry was a must for any young Viking. A few Viking poems dwelt on love, but the heroes often undermined their happiness by chasing adventures that separated them from their beloveds. […]