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Cool Car
Summer is nigh, time to be light, even a bit silly. The other day, riding my bike, this car passed me. Wow! First thing I noticed was the color, some kind of mango peach. Very tropical. Then of course, there … Continue reading
Father’s Day
I’ve been on the receiving end of Father’s Day for thirty years now; my children were born in 1989 and 1990; my own father died in 1994. Dad’s been gone so long that weeks, months can pass and he doesn’t … Continue reading
Everybody Wants to Get Paid for Everything
A couple of months ago The Boston Globe ran an article about the Dartmouth College basketball team, which voted to form a union. I imagined the writer trying mightily not to pen the story as satire. Which got me wondering, … Continue reading
My David Sedaris Challenge
David Sedaris is a well-known humorist; a go-to guy for wholesome satire with a touch of irony. He often writes about the joy and discovery of walking. In a recent article, he boasted of logging 40,000 steps and dreamed, one … Continue reading
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Tagged 10000 steps, 100000 steps, Charles River, David Sedaris, walking
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Memorial Day
This is a reprint of an essay from Memorial Day 2012. Unfortunately, it all needs to be said again, and again. Memorial Day has always struck me as a holiday in desperate need of a root cause analysis. We honor … Continue reading
All the Privilege I Cannot See
I can’t seem to get Alex Edelman’s Just for Us out of my head. I keep digging beneath the comic surface of his sometimes naïve, always humorous, wonderings about whether this fair skinned Orthodox Jewish man-child is actually white. One … Continue reading
Alex Edelman: Just for Us
You haven’t seen comedian Alex Edelman’s MAX special, Just for Us? You must. I first read about Alex a few years ago, in a profile of the Brookline-born comedian, so when his special appeared in my MAX queue, I hit … Continue reading
Building Our Way to Equity: A Convenient Fallacy
Over the last dozen years or so, I’ve watched my small, wealthy, city of Cambridge MA grapple with how to create a more resilient and equitable community. How to provide more affordable housing. How to encourage more sustainable transportation. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge MA, housing equity, pedestrian safety, social equity
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This Earth Day: Do Something that Hurts…Until it Feels Good
Ask any person if they are sustainable and the answer is a resounding, “Yes.” After all, we’re all good people, and we want to save the earth, so we do our part. This one recycles beer cans. That one installs … Continue reading
The Simple Beauty of Following Right-of-Way
It’s Spring! The weather is warming, the cyclists are swarming, and motorists are alert to us everywhere. As a guy whose primary means of transport for over fifty years has been my bicycle, I appreciate how turf battles over pavement … Continue reading
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