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  • Michelle and the Very Odd Fellow (A Brief Encounter With A Trump Voter)
    I approached his cab from behind, so I didn't get a good look at the driver. Given the unseasonably warm day, the driver's ...
  • The Apartment Hunt Continues (And These People Have Lost Touch With Reality)
    Braintree Street at dusk To bring you up to date, we have to move this year. We have most probably been priced out of Allston, but I look a...
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special : Merry Gen X'mas
    Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
  • Yes, I UnFriended You "Over Politics"
    No, I Do Not Feel Bad About UnFriending Okay, I've been sitting on this one for years, partially due to the PTSD, troubling lack...
  • I Just Unfriended My Mother-in-Law
    I just Unfriended my mother-in-law. I have mostly been off Facebook since October, only popping back in now and then because I miss seeing w...
  • My Super-Talented Family Members: JoAnna Lombardi (Painter)
    Stevie Happy Sunday, dear fine readers. I was thinking. I am lucky enough to be surrounded by incredibly talented artists. And I haven't...
  • My Super-Talented Family Members: Joe "onlyone" Kowalski
    My husband is  Joe Kowalski , an imaginative Gen X polymath and among the most talented people I know. I learned the term "polymath...
  • Me and the Loony Bin
    Self-Portrait The first time I went into the mental hospital was in early 2014. I'd been fired from my job at the end of Novem...
  • French Toast Alert on HIGH: Heavy Snowfall Expected
        "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.”   
  • Never Forget Who Broke That Egg: The Triumph of Marcia Brady
    One of my buddies confided that he can't stand it when his other single friends goad him into going "tom-catting around" on ...
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special : Merry Gen X'mas
    Long ago in a galaxy we 40-somethings refer to as "childhood," we built a cherry Kool-Aid world with rad high tech toys like ...
  • Never Forget Who Broke That Egg: The Triumph of Marcia Brady
    One of my buddies confided that he can't stand it when his other single friends goad him into going "tom-catting around" on ...
  • Losing Your Religion? Consider an Upgrade!
    A Short Primer  for the  Spiritually Conflicted If your thousands-of-years-old religion's definition of "dec...
  • ACOSTA FAMILY: Are these girls okay?
    When I typed "Acosta..." into Google, the auto-fill came up with "...family." That means I'm not the only one who we...
  • Where Is Lexi Kahn?
    No matter how much I try to stop ruminating, there come the thoughts again. Why didn't I do this, why did I pick that, why have I mad...
  • Music Makers and Dreamers of Dreams
    When I was 24 years old, I found it necessary to retract and re-submit my * theory about musicians and just what the hell is their deal a...
  • Me and the Loony Bin
    Self-Portrait The first time I went into the mental hospital was in early 2014. I'd been fired from my job at the end of Novem...
  • American Borer Story: The Blair Witch Project Turns 15
    Fifteen years and a whole bunch of copycats later, I still say that it's a miracle we ever heard of The Blair Witch Project . ...
  • I Cannot Tell These Two Women Apart
    Sarah or Mercedes? "This actress shows up in so many shows I like!" I said, watching re-runs of The Finder and Person of In...
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