I admit (what is it about all these admissions?) that I’m also an msn.com story-clicking junkie. The front page of Week in Review and Today’s Picks just has that right mix of interesting and short stories–the celebrity wonderwall, sports updates, insistent suggestions of how to navigate the financial markets, the salacious pull of relationship articles [...]
Rachael Price wrote me an email today. Okay, so not an unsolicited one, but rather a response from an email I sent her about an upcoming show. Still, though. How awesome is that?? From initially hearing a track from The Good Hours album this past winter on the radio, to catching an impromptu-ized Tupelo Honey [...]
Fall (the favorite of seasons) is particularly good when you get to make the most and you bust your way out of the city and happily head north (or west) for some hiking. What is it about the feeling of packing the polypropylene shirts and thermals, readying a pile of jackets and velcro-ing the hiking [...]
Alright, I’ll admit it. Installing cable, especially with access to HD channels, is really worth it. Especially when you get to toggle between a super crisp Game 1 of the National League series of the Phillies vs. the Dodgers and scenes from Ratatouille on Disney. A just-heard bit of animated wisdom from the movie: ‘Not [...]
Lots of job postings up at the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE), including induction coach, content specialist, advocacy and development positions. Click here for the link.
Had to love the faces and expressions of utter excitement and anticipation in the faces of some Tae-Kwon-Do practicing 2nd graders from a school I visited this morning–with their mix of nervous energies about to spill over, riding on the thinnest of edges, and just waiting-for-that-word-of-GO! to practice their axe-kicks. You have to believe that [...]
Great line from a student in a middle school science class this morning, the teacher doing really well facilitating discussion and working particularly hard to squelch any and all detracting behavioral issues. The student’s response to the teacher’s rhetorical question of whether he needed to move him to another table, the teacher noticing the early [...]
Still making my way through Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, which I started and carried with me during my Southeast Asia trip this summer. Beginning chapters started on outbound planes in too-tight aisle seat spaces, and others under mosquito-netting in a Malaysian guesthouse, beachside in Thailand and in hostel rooms here and there. Nice [...]
So S and I didn’t replicate the success of the first meal two weeks ago, getting only one vote for best dish earlier this evening. But those gathered around the table at my friend C’s house did seem to like the romesca sauce an awful lot, with that nice balance of taste and nuttiness with [...]
Full Weather Mix in Western Massachusetts
So that’s a little unexpected– I’m looking outside the windows and seeing the fat snowflakes falling, mixing with the runoff from a full morning of rain streaming down the street. Um, it’s only mid-October.. Made the yearly fall-season visit to Western Massachusetts though, and from a full sunshine Saturday morning start to a clouded-over afternoon, [...]