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MIT’s Response to President Trump’s Proposed Contract As an alum, I was happy to receive a copy of the letter (October 10, 2025) that MIT President Sally Kornbluth sent to US Education Secretary Linda McMahon. As a concerned American, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Compact for Academic Excellence, Linda McMahon, MIT, Sally Kornbluth
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What is the Value of Our Town in Our Time?
Lyric Stage Boston Our Town By Thornton Wilder Directed by Courtney O’Connor September 19 – October 19, 2025 Lyric Stage Boston opens its 2025-2026 season with a pitch perfect production of Our Town. The cast is uniformly excellent, the timing … Continue reading
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Tagged Courtney O'Connor, Lyric Stage Boston, Our Town, Thornton Wilder
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Choose Your Form of Catharsis
The Hills of California Written by Jez Butterworth Directed by Loretta Greco The Huntington 9/12/2025 – 10/12/2025 ———- Primary Trust Written by Eboni Booth Directed by Dawn Simmons Speakeasy Stage 9/12.2025 – 10/11/2025 ———- That theater holds a mirror up … Continue reading
Pick Up the Baton and Pass it to On
The Mountaintop Written by Katori Hall Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent Front Porch Arts Collective at Suffolk University Modern Theater 9/19/2025 – 10/12/2025 Fall theater kicked off with a bang this week; I saw four quality productions in four days. … Continue reading
The Kittie Knox Plays
Produced by Plays in Place September 20 at Eustis Mansion in Milton September 27 at Herter Park in Boston If you’re pumped for the 2025-2026 theater season to begin, but not keen on piling into a theater during our glorious … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bike, biking, cycling, Kittie Knox, Mass Bikes, Michelle Aguillon, Patrick Gabridge, Plays in Place, travel
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Celebrating Returning Citizens: 2025 Louise Eustace Fellows
Last week’s post described how I came to create a fellowship named after my grandmother, and the wonderful effect, after forty years gone, it’s been to have her name and spirit evoked as a regular part of my life. Louise … Continue reading
Keeping My Grandmother’s Memory Alive
I’ve always been a fan of the notion that we keep the spirit of those we love alive when we keep them fresh in your memory. Geography can be a trigger. Since I’ve lived in the same place for going … Continue reading
On Vacation
Greetings All – Dave and I escaped the heat up to Nova Scotia. A glorious place. Hope you all have a lovely summer. More Awkward Posing come fall.
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Crazy Capitalism
I realize it is commonplace, maybe even expected, to decry how much everything costs. Inflation is a necessary byproduct of an economic system predicated on the wonders of compound interest. But just as often I am amazed—nay, astounded—by just how … Continue reading
Beware of the Alien: Convenience Store Woman
A female science fiction writer from Japan? Being no kind of science fiction fan, I figured I’d pass on Elif Batuman’s profile of author Sayaka Murata (The New Yorker April 7, 2025). But as a faithful New Yorker reader, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, Science Fiction
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