Among the fifty gagillion reasons I’m happy we moved, is the fact that I can now vote in city elections. Nick voted in Boston elections whilst living in Brighton, but on the side of Beacon St., I was not so lucky. Sure, we had better…
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Today: Help with the harvest
I spent Friday morning unplugged and getting my hands dirty in the garden. In the middle of the city. Though it wasn’t intentional, I wore the perfect shoes for celebrating Obama’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize. Since these moccasins worked so well during my…
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Today: Wrap it up
While I’m busy wrapping presents for Nick and my sister (tomorrow’s Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl, respectively)… Can someone pleeease explain this City Hall email debacle to me? Is this newsworthy because someone did something wrong, or because it’s an election year? I will award…
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Today: Celebrate the New Year
Happy New Year. While New Year’s Day is traditionally celebrated on January 1st, the anxiety of choosing a really good resolution coupled with a hangover and the biting cold of, well, January, doesn’t exactly thrill me. But the start of a new school year? Now…
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Today: Get beat by the heat
The AC in our office went extinct last week. We were waiting for a replacement part, only to find out the model of the our unit had also gone the way of the dinosaurs. In the meantime, I lost about 10 lbs. of sweat, without…
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Today: Go it alone
According to a Meyers-Briggs personality assessment from late 2002, I am an introvert. And while I’m no hermit, there are some things I like doing alone. And then there are those things I would much prefer to do in the company of a partner-in-crime. Attending…