Nine months and four days after we turned our Vermont home over to our contractor, Gary Daden, we returned to our gutted-and-rehabbed house. During the renovation process, we worked closely…
Good judges are, in my experience, much more common than bad ones. But as in any profession, exceptional judges are rare. When one leaves the bench, it’s a…
Why do I love Boston? Watch the press conference following ‘white hat’s’ capture Friday evening. Contrast the statements of the Boston Police Commissioner, the Watertown Police chief,…
Jonathan Winters, the quintessential Ohioan, has died at 87. Comedian, actor and voice artist Jonathan Winters was versatile, emotional, complicated and Midwestern. Out of ill-fit, off-the-bargain-rack clothes…
In eastern Massachusetts, it’s Patriots Day Weekend, the annual celebration of the ‘Shot Heard Round the World’, fired in Concord (the irony of its name goes unmentioned) on…
How differently we experience of professional sports than our grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ did. A delightful exhibit at the Boston Public Library on Boston Sports Temples (BPL Main Branch in…
Let’s talk about breaking up institutions, maybe even Evil Empires. ‘Break up the Yankees!’ How many times I heard that in my first 14 years. Two years…
“It’s just not an efficient market if a fair amount of orders never see the light of day,” [Kevin Cronin, the top trader at the mutual fund provider…
In his fine introduction to J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country [1980] (New York: New York Review Books, 2000), Michael Holroyd suggests Carr added in honor of…
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