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Getting Our Due – Attitude Makes all the Difference
One of my tenants moved out. He gave notice in June and had paid rent through the end of July. I told him that if I rented the place before the end of the month I would refund him whatever … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged landlord, last month deposit, lease, renter, tenant rights
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Extreme Sports
Last weekend I bicycled 200 miles as part of the Courage Classic, a fund raising event for the Colorado Children’s Hospital. It was my fourth year participating in the three-day ride that traverses four major passes, crosses the Continental Divide, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicyling, Courage Classic, cycling, Double Triple Bypass, extreme sports, Iron Man, marathon, off-road races, Rocky Mountains
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My Handyman
My handyman is coming over tomorrow to check out some rickety windows. I won’t tell you his name because if you knew it, you would call him to be your handyman. He hates getting phone calls, and I want to … Continue reading
The True Test of Being Passé – Launching my Middle-initialed Website
No one would call me trendy. Anti-trendy overstates my level of trend awareness. Trend-ignorant is more like it. All I know is that for the past fifty plus years, when I begin to favor a restaurant, it’s on its way … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Uncategorized
Tagged Bruce Feiler, middle initials, NY Times, paulefallon, paulefallon.com, website
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Amour and Puppy Love
Here is a maxim to live by: Never watch a depressing French film with a puppy. My friend Chuck raved about Amour. It won lots of awards. I decided to set aside my distaste for subtitles and watch it. My … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Uncategorized
Tagged Amour, Amour film, Emmanuelle Riva, French films, Isabelle Hupport, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Paris Apartment, puppy, puppy love
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Which Would You Prefer – Sit Still or Experience a Shock?
This is a reposted blog essay from on of my favorite bloggers: yogibattle. Here is some disturbing news from the Western front: many people can barely tolerate to be alone with themselves. At least those were the findings in a … Continue reading
Our Shrinking Engineering Legacy
This essay was published in WBUR Cognoscenti on July 2, 2014. I took a walk with a friend through Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., last weekend to enjoy summer’s long days and pleasant weather. Some of the cemetery’s most … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Tagged Back Bay, Big Dig, Boston, Cambridge, Charles River, civil engineering, MIT, Mount Auburn Cemetery, South End, Washington Tower, Zakim Bridge
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Free Stuff – It’s Moving Season
I am sitting in my study on a warm summer Saturday afternoon. My third floor tenant is moving out. I have offered to help, but he’s a big guy, as is his boyfriend, so they’ve got it covered. They load … Continue reading
Route 6A Brewster
Bicycling to Cape Cod is becoming an annual tradition. This week I rode to Eastham to visit Jan and Mike Golan, pedaled to Falmouth to see my son, and then returned to Cambridge. Cape Cod Baseball League game each night, … Continue reading
Posted in Bicycling
Tagged bicycle, Brewster, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Baseball League, Cape Cod Rail Trail, cycling, Eastham, Route 6A
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Tata Hall
Harvard Business School occupies a majestic bend on the Boston side of the Charles River. McKim Mead and White designed the original Georgian campus in the 1920’s, with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmstead. The twelve buildings organized around courtyards … Continue reading
Posted in United States
Tagged Ben Thompson, Boston, CBT, Charles River, Harvard, Harvard Business School, HBS, Machada Silvetti, McKim Mead & White, SBRA, Tata Hall, Wiliam Rawn
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