Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
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It Feels Like Yesterday
03 Apr 2019Twenty-five years ago on April 3, at 12:45 a.m. (as the US fell forward into Daylight Savings Time — and…
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Just Pick One, Dammit
16 Mar 2019It is Day 6 of this crazy exercise we practice every spring of setting our clocks forward an hour. In…
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The Pomegranate Lady Checks In
26 Jan 2019Back in October, I told you about a volunteer opportunity at Boston College, where I work, in which I would…
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Day Drinking – at Work
01 Dec 2018My experience was not quite as exciting or exotic as that of Little Big Town, since, you know, coworkers at…
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Wanderlust – The art of being lost
10 Nov 2018“Lost” conjures images of children in the woods lured to candy-covered cottages, or writers staring at the blinking cursor asking…
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The Pomegranate, Pomegranate, Pomegranate Witch!
21 Oct 2018I’m excited to share with you a program I’m participating in here at Boston College. It’s called the “Read Aloud…
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Chicken Fingers, Bugs, and Burt
09 Sep 2018Good afternoon, faithful readers. We’re hard at work getting the first draft of Winter’s Thaw ready to go on to…
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The Return of the Rom-Com
11 Aug 2018A couple of nights ago I had the opportunity to see a new romantic comedy called Crazy Rich Asians, based…
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This Is Not An App …
03 Aug 2018This is my Zen-like world today. I’ve got the windows open, and Fergus and Sophie are snuggled up with me…
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In Search of Some Light
23 Jun 2018I’m reblogging the following from two years ago. I hope you don’t mind. You see, I’ve been struggling for days…