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I can’t recall ever having been so hot for so long.  Or maybe because I am certifiably old, the heat is harder on my tired body.  My new apartment has a lovely breeze from the Charles River, just across Memorial Drive.  But even that doesn’t get the job done in this heat wave. So, I…

Weeks before I bought, and moved into my new apartment, I was invited by friends to visit one of my favorite places, the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro, Vermont.  It turned out that a little break from moving was the perfect antidote to chaos.  I’ve probably mentioned before that our children referred to Peter and…

I had quite a bit to say about my recent move.  (Doesn’t everyone who moves?)  Occasionally, I write blogs to be published later, but on Sunday, I accidentally published the post that was supposed to be today.  Two posts on one day means I can skip a day, so with apologies, no fresh blog post…

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” So wrote Robert Frost in 1914. My latest move brought that famous quote to mind because I am now “home” in Cambridge again. I moved to Cambridge from Beacon Hill in 1965, married Peter in 1968, and a…

The last time I moved, my new dwelling was three years old.  This time my building is 130 years old, and although I love my apartment, there are some issues. For starters, the garbage disposal doesn’t work, and has no cover, and the plumber has to order something to fix it plus a cover.  That’s…

According to The New York Times, a new (and affordable) toy is sweeping the country.  Basically, it is a “goop-filled blob” that is squeezable.  The blobs come in endless shapes and colors—the article features a stick-of-butter-shaped blob. Reportedly, an eight-year-old who regularly resisted getting up for school hopped out of bed at 6:30 a.m so…

I am grateful for my lucky life.  But today I want to tell YOU, my amazing blog readers, how grateful I am for you.  You understand how stressful moving is, and your good wishes have been pouring in.  At this moment, I am down to a few remaining boxes, and once I remember where I…

80-something followers may recall that in November. 2024, my condo building was found to be unsafe because of inferior construction decades ago.  We residents had four weeks to vacate. With so little time to look, I moved to a “temporary” apartment where I stayed for eight months.  And then I moved to the independent living…

An August, 2022 article in American Heart Association News, suggests that adults over 50 who have more positive attitudes about aging have a 43% lower risk of dying from any cause over a four-year period than those who are less positive. The study also found that optimistic agers tend to be at lower risk for…

My father (who was born in1895!) used to tell my brother Don and me that he remembered when a hamburger cost 5 cents.  I checked, and White Castle hamburgers were exactly that until 1949.  In 1970, a McDonald’s hamburger was only “18-20 cents.” Today a McDonald’s hamburger is somewhere between $2.49 and $2.99.  Not sure…