Category: Personal

March 15, 2020 I haven’t talked about the coronavirus at all. But it’s taking a toll. And I think it’s just beginning. An example of something that won’t happen much longer is the celebration...

Our middle child, Izzy, badly wanted a new iPhone for her 15th birthday. She had one of Maggie’s old used ones, it was cracked on every visible surface, and of course we thought that...

Exactly a year ago this evening, sitting at the very front of the gymnasium in Tracy Hall facing a hundred, give or take, citizens of Norwich, I peered out one of the side windows...

Many, many years ago… maybe in 1999 or 2000, I learned about a nifty service called eFax. Instead of having to worry about keeping paper in the fax machine and ensuring nobody was using...

This poem was written by my brother Doug’s daughter Molly who is 11 years old. I wanted to remember it and figured a good place to accomplish that for me is by posting it...

At long last, today Boloco quietly re-opened one of our most beautiful locations on the Boston Common. No ribbon cutting, no celebrating, and no lines out the door, but a lot of gratitude as...

Seth Godin wrote a blog post today entitled “2030”. After his usual clever, though admittedly only somewhat helpful story about smoke detectors, he says the following: Whatever happens over the next ten years, if...

I, myself, barely chuckled when I heard someone tell me that today, January 1, 2021, would be the first day ever where hindsight is actually 2020. But I’ve used it multiple times since. It...