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What’s left of this month anyway? Whose walking those bare fields now, when it’s cold but not cold enough for snow? Muddy hills, wilted, shr...

If the days appear skewed toward the positive, it has to do with the quiet hours that allow me to move ahead, slowly, methodically. The weat...

You get to wonder sometimes – how many bloggers out there are really happy? Bleh, what’s happiness… (that’s one response)… and how dare you ...

All day, it rained. Purchase photo 2199 I got on the wrong bus going home this evening. It was late, raining, but I realized my mistake earl...

The reason people endure winter here as well as they do is because many cold days are bright days. Give me a cold day in Madison over a cold...

This week-end, one of my father’s closest friends died. I called my dad (he lives in Poland) to see if he was feeling morose about it. He re...

Last day of the Westside Community Market. For this year anyway. Sigh… The snow showers continued, the wind picked up, and everything outdoo...

You kind of expect it here in November – that wet, miserable dump of rain mixed with snow. But somehow, last year’s winter left everyone wea...

A day of work. And not only. There was the coffee break. And the time spent on helping a friend make sense of his court transcripts. And the...

The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep… [Barack Obama, President-Elect] So why are these two women not wearing helmets? Admitt...

I woke up and thought – election! But, it was only 4 and the polls were not yet open. I went back to sleep. By 6 a.m. I’m up again. Still to...

An early morning ride on the Red Line, from Cambridge to Boston, then onto the Gray Line from South Station to the airport. I always toy wit...

What do you do with an extra hour? Save it? Ignore it? Sleep it away? We’re in Woodstock, Vermont. I look at my travel clock and mentally pu...

Leaving Cambridge (MA) this week-end means saying so long to the colors of ivy and maple. Purchase photo 2184 Purchase photo 2183 Going nort...