September 9, 2017 (Saturday)

September 8, 2018

It’s early, but with kids living thousands of miles away from us, I’m obsessing about vacations and family gatherings, about Thanksgiving and how no one will be around for that …which made me think about food, and how at least one child and the significant other have dietary restrictions that drive a wedge into the […]

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September 8, 2017 (Friday)

September 7, 2018

Driving north on the highway yesterday in the early afternoon I saw two separate instances of trees which had turned from green to red. They weren’t large, more like big saplings amidst older and bigger trees lining the highway; but like young men falling early in battle, they showed what was to come. Soon all […]

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September 7, 2017 (Thursday)

September 6, 2018

I understood something yesterday about pathologies. Mental pathologies. I don’t want to suggest that racism is a mental illness — it isn’t. However, if you let it determine your entire worldview, it can turn everything in your life into a pathology.

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September 6, 2017 (Wednesday)

September 5, 2018

It just occurred to me that soon I will be writing December 6… What a thing. Time is weird. Lately I’ve been feeling aged, and even though I’m creeping up on 61 (come late December), it feels premature, like I can’t really figure out what age I am. What would it mean, anyway, to “act” […]

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September 5, 2017 (Tuesday)

September 4, 2018

I had an email from A., with this in the subject line: This song sums up a lot about the East Coast, IMO. The content was a Youtube link to a music video, followed by the comment that “California Dreaming” (the song) was “easy to consume and sing along to, and that “this version” (meaning […]

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September 4, 2017 (Monday)

September 3, 2018

This morning the sun is out and we’re expecting a brief return to calmer (and warmer) weather. I’m watching a man walking away from downtown, up E.-Street, far down below from where I’m sitting. He’s not wearing the usual summer shorts (baggy toddler wear), although in all other respects he looks like a “native”: t-shirt, […]

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September 3, 2017 (Sunday)

September 2, 2018

Another unseasonably cool day, and this one is quite blustery, too, with rain in the forecast. Last night’s gala event, Edge, organized by the Ocean Alliance at the Paint Factory in Gloucester – a pleasant, and very understated affair – remained dry, although we all froze a bit. Except perhaps those intrepid folks who actually […]

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September 2, 2017 (Saturday)

September 1, 2018

Another beautiful, cool but sunny, day – so unusual. I went to a lunch yesterday. New group. First time there for me. I went with some trepidation (because I typically enter new social situations with at least a bit of that). Almost everyone there was older, some a lot older, than I am. On one […]

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September 1, 2017 (Friday)

August 31, 2018

Yesterday afternoon I drove to the grocery store, listened to NPR on the way back, heard two reports which drove me crazy. That is, aspects of these reports drove me nuts. First, a report on Facebook’s attempt to muscle in on the TV market with its new Watch platform. The report began by talking a […]

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August 31, 2017 (Thursday)

August 30, 2018

I took myself on a field trip to Gloucester, going by Route 127, the scenic way. I walked from Stage Fort Park along the promenade, past the memorials to all the fishermen (and some women) lost at sea, and then down Commercial Street to Fort Point, into the old neighborhood which surrounds the new Beauport […]

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