From the monthly archives:
I went out shopping and random errand-running today, the course of which took me into our bustling metropolis, Hyannis, a place I usually avoid assiduously. But I really needed some of the extraordinarily fantastic tapenade they sell at this one place in Hyannis, really needed it, so I went. I had to get the car [...]
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The day after the blizzard (no, there is nothing else I am capable of talking about, and if you had snow up to your eyeballs and more on the way you’d be a little mono-thematic as well) I shoveled our way out the back door to the car. I did not shovel out the front [...]
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Snow day! The hurricane-force winds have calmed to relatively bearable gusts of 35 miles per hour. Visibility is finally above zero, after non-stop white-out conditions for about 36 hours. The snow drifts are piled high enough to obscure the lower halves of our windows. Our cars are unidentifiable lumps of abstract sculpture that I don’t [...]
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Right now, a ferocious Nor’easter is bearing down on poor little us again, and they’re saying it’ll make the last one of three weeks ago look like a summer day. ‘Member that last one? The one where I had dueling electric fires in my front yard for two and a half hours? Yeah. Good times. [...]
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Words have been very very good to me recently. It goes without saying that I’m a word geek, since I make my meager living as a freelance editor, but lately I’ve surpassed myself. The first, and most important thing to have happened was that one of the folks I do work for suddenly decided I [...]
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