Ocean

If you look out a train window long enough, you’ll stop being just a passenger in a train car. At some point you’ll find yourself out there,...

Evening. We listen to a commonwealth of songs – her Ipod, my Itunes -- and we compare associations. This one is from your college graduation...

I don’t really mind the cold and damp. It’s not what I associate with DC, but at this time of the year, that kind of stuff happens. And the ...

When you spend time with your adult kids, isn’t it natural that you should reflect on where they’re at and what role you played in the proce...

I like to say that my oldest daughter lives down south. I have a mother in California and family scattered between Poland and Sweden and of ...

If you had to wait at a bus stop this morning you would have prayed for a quick rescue. Damn cold. Never made it beyond some odd 20 degree f...

You should move to my condo building. This is why: [No, not because boosting the occupancy ratio will make it more probable that I will succ...

Covered with wet snow. Buds, slapped down by a winter mix the next morning. Even Boston has to endure the reappearance of wintry stuff. Earl...

As if one Saturday of solid warmth wasn’t enough! Sunday outdid itself by adding to it a sky of blue. And so it was no surprise that the sno...

When I am visiting here, in Cambridge, sometimes we are ambitious and we cover half the state and the one next door. Other times, we can har...

It's time. I haven’t seen either girl since the very first days of January. Too long. (I know I am spoiled. But you’d have to know my da...