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In praise of the mundane and slow blogging
My triple decker condo building, on the right, Jamaica Plain, Boston (Photo: DY, 2014) Commenting on my previous dramatic, pathbreaking post about coffee (NOT), one of my friends remarked on Facebook...
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Not-so-random acts of kindness for the non-saintly among us
Maybe some of the course rubbed off on me. Last November, I was crossing the street near Boston’s Faneuil Hall when I saw a man huddled in a blanket, shuffling past me in the opposite direction. I...
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On being a night owl
Image courtesy of http://www.clipartof.com One night last week, I got home around 9 p.m., quickly grabbed a bite to eat, and started to feel very sleepy. It was around 10 p.m. when I decided to go to...
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Thinking young and thinking old: The best of both worlds
(Photo: DY, 2015) So here’s the question for the day: In looking for books that help us to play the game of life, should we seek insights that encourage us to be young and adventurous or old and wise?...
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On bucket lists, f***it lists, and the happily mundane
The title of the 2007 movie “The Bucket List” introduced a new phrase into our popular culture, referring to the making of wish lists, written down or simply in our heads, of must-do trips and...
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Clothes shopping: My imitation of a Japanese bullet train
It takes forever to remove all the detritus As faithful readers of this little blog might guess, I can spend an hour in a used bookstore, and ultimately leave with a $5 bargain and a smile on my face....
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Life’s little scratch ticket wins
The other day I was getting ready for a short trip, and I went online to print out my airline ticket. I was delighted to see the TSA Pre-check designation on it. Pre-check means that you can go...
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From gadget to appendage
Sometime during the last year, my cell phone morphed from being a oft-annoying gadget to an occasionally annoying virtual appendage. I am not a likely candidate to have made this transition. I have...
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Pandemic Chronicles #6: The new normal is fluid and still surreal
Looking out the screen door. In The Year of Magical Thinking, author Joan Didion opens her widely-acclaimed memoir about loss and grief with these words: Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant....
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Pandemic Chronicles #8: And suddenly, our worlds became very small
Approaching Boston’s Logan International Airport (photo: DY) I was listening to a favorite album the other day, a collection of Gershwin songs by Michael Feinstein, one of the most devoted and talented...
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Pandemic Chronicles #15: Let’s get through this bleak midwinter
Recent snowfall viewed thru my kitchen window, Jamaica Plain, Boston Here in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic continues at a brutal pace, as we await larger distributions of vaccines that will help...
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