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Training Pets: An Exercise In Futility
                                                                    Ah, pets. Those adorable bundles of fur, feathers, or [...]
PDP-8
My husband was always a tech guy; first a programmer, then a systems guy, then a thinker – a management consultant. I [...]
Self Service, No Service, or Wrong Service?
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At that point I press 0 and get a voicemail saying the mailbox is full. Click ...
Letterman’s Favorite Magician
Years ago, we attended a fundraiser for affordable housing (an ongoing dilemma) on Martha’s Vineyard. The evening began [...]
Freedom with a Roof
Freedom with a Roof At age 18 in January of our Senior year in high school my boyfriend Mike and I were chomping at the bit [...]
The Cacophony for the Carceral State
Overture.  The Middletown Ct. Police Station—Bartok’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion. Before beginning my job as a [...]
Good Enough
I’m one of those people who gets a task 95% completed and decides it is good enough.
Vax Thrill
At his mid-afternoon press briefing on Wednesday, February 17, Governor Baker announced that anyone over the age of 65 would [...]
We all live in a yellow submarine, er… yellow bus
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… their route started from Boston to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun
Once Upon A Time
We circled and bobbed at his urging—arms, wings and paws in unison—as a giant red sun rose out of the water.