Who's the most innovative state? That would be little old Massachusetts.
I know, I know. I can be such a complete and utter homer when it comes to those (often completely silly) state and city rankings. Healthiest. Wealthiest. Wisest. Bring it on! Most of the time “we’re”...
View Article"Cool, werid, or useless." What Hiawatha Bray saw at CES2016
Each January, tech aficionados head to CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, a mega-overload of new gadgets and devices that no one actually needs and that, surprisingly enough, some folks actually want....
View ArticleAmerican Beauty
The Wall Street Journal had a recent article, “The High Price of Beauty,” in which they surveyed four New Yorkers on how much they shelled out each year on making and keeping themselves bee-yoo-ti-ful....
View ArticleSad word from Worcester: Spag's is gone...
Sorrowful word from Worcester has been received. Spag’s – the granddaddy of discount stores – is no more.Actually, it’s been no more for quite a while now. But now even the building, which sat on Route...
View ArticleA Paper Boy’s Lot is Not a Happy One
For a couple of weeks there, in the summer when I was 10 or 11, I was a paper girl. My brother Tommy R, then 8 or 9, agreed to take over the route of his friend Tommy Mac, whose family was heading off...
View ArticleOrders from Headquarters? GE re-lo-ing to Boston.
The big news - make that BIG NEWS - in Boston this week is that GE is bringing good things, if not to life, then to Boston. What it's bringing is corporate headquarters, which - employment-wise - is...
View ArticleMLK Day
One of the things I've done many times over the years is to post my thoughts about a particular holiday.Christmas. Thanksgiving. Patriots' Day. Memorial Day. Labor Day. Fourth of July. Valentine's Day....
View ArticleA holdup man named Yosemite Sam…What’s wrong with Jeremy Jacobs, anyway?
Somewhere along the line – when I was in high school and beyond my prime Looney Tunes watching years – someone gave the Rogers family a bunch of kids records. One that was played repeatedly Chez Rogers...
View ArticleOn behalf of the elderly female population
Who among us hasn’t, at least on one or two occasions, done something on the job that was incredibly ill-thought-out and/or dunderheaded? Something that seemed like a good idea at the time, but that...
View ArticleBest Jobs in America? I've actually had some of them.
Last night I was ruing my life as a blogger. Surely, I told myself as I struggled to find a topic that would let me keep my one-a-day blogging streak going, blogger must be the worstjob in the world....
View ArticleDing-Dong, Avon Calling.
My mother’s friend Helen was an Avon Lady.Many the time I crossed Main Street and pumped up the rickety back stairs in Helen’s three decker, cash in hand, to pick up my mother’s Avon order. Other than...
View Article"Boston Accent": Thank you, Seth Meyers. This is hilarious.
A few weeks back, I saw the movie Spotlight (which tells the story of the Boston Globe's excellent work uncovering the Catholic Church pedophilia scandal). I went with my sister Kath and her husband,...
View ArticleInnocents Abroad, Otto Warmbier Edition
Otto Warmbier should be back in class, starting the second semester of his junior year at the University of Virginia. Instead, he’s sitting in jail in Pyongyang, having been nabbed at the airport just...
View ArticleWhy drone racing will be more fun than NASCAR
Until I saw an article about it on Bloomberg, I’d never even heard of drone racing. And my first reaction when I saw the headline about it – “New Drone Racing League Wants to Be the Next NASCAR” -...
View ArticleThreads
When I was a girl, back in the buggy-whip days, things other than financial instruments, software, and medical discoveries were made in Massachusetts. Tangible things were - get this - manufacturered...
View ArticleChrista McAuliffe, local girl.
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.Hard to believe it's been that long...I am by no means a space junkie.As a kid, I was excited when Alan Shepard was shot into...
View Article“Nostalgia Craving” Tourists? Not me...
The other day, in The Boston Globe, there was an article entitled “Nostalgia Craving baby boomers are driving tourism.” Between that and the sub-head – “From Route 66 and Disneyland to Hawaii and...
View ArticleCheater pants! Make that cheater bicycle pants.
Somehow, I suspect that since the first die was cast, cheating - big cheating, little cheating - has plagued sports. Let's face it. People want to win. And a lot of them will do anything to get a check...
View ArticleYou really can't watch a sporting even without rooting for SOMEONE.
Despite my misgvings about the NFL - and there'll be more on that tomorrow - I'm going to a Super Bowl gatherng on Sunday.Unless the Patriots are in, I usually don't watch it. But this is a social...
View ArticleAs If I Needed Another Reason to Despise the NFL
I will admit it: I’m a sports fan.Not a rabid, crazed, live-or-die, obsessional nut case, mind you.But, yes, I’m a bona fide sports fan. Largely a professional sports fan.Mostly, I follow baseball. The...
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