The Place to Take a Humor Break
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 […]
A windy April Friday. There’s just me and two cats, Rocco and Okie, three sullen males grunting their way through the day–as usual–while the wife’s out shopping for essential items. Milk, bread, a tall vanilla […]
A year after the pandemic upended the state’s court system creating a backlog of cases, jury trials will soon resume in some unconventional settings, including a Cape Cod resort that features a water park. The […]
PLAISTOW, New Hampshire. Jed Murphy is a 62-year-old who describes himself as the kind of person who “works to live, not lives to work,” and as he looks ahead to normal retirement age he finds […]
Social distancing during the current pandemic is not only required, it may even be helpful. But how do you know how much distance is too soon, or whether you’re standing up too close or back […]
Wondering how to end that sentence you’re working on? Don’t know what an “interrobang” is? Ask Mr. Punctuation, if he doesn’t know the answer he’ll look it up in his fourth-grade English book. Dear Mr. […]
WELLESLEY FALLS, Mass. The corner of Wembly and Algernon streets in this affluent western suburb of Boston has long been known as a “dead zone” where retail businesses perish at a higher-than-average rate of mortality. “Maybe it’s […]
PLAISTOW, New Hampshire. If anybody can look on the bright side of things in this town of 7,609 near the Massachusetts border, it’s Amanda Byfurd, an avid collector of cloying ceramic figurines and a compulsive […]
WESTLAND, Mass. Arlene Douthat used to feel, in her words, as if she was “all alone” in dealing with the difficulties she faced in life. “There was nobody I could turn to,” she says as […]