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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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Reading Frederick Douglass Together
Last Sunday afternoon I attended a reading of Frederick Douglass’ epic speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.” “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in … Continue reading
Babygirl: Same Old Same Old, Just a Different Sex
WARNING: This blog posts includes spoiler alerts about the 2024 film, Babygirl plus comments about sexuality that some may find inappropriate in a general interest blog. That being said, I’m confident that everyone will keep reading… I hold two related … Continue reading
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Tagged Babygirl, Halina Reijn, Harris Dickinson, Nicole Kidman, Sexual Submission
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Wrap Up the Theater Season with a Bang!
Boston New Works Festival Moonbox Productions Calderwood Pavilion and Boston Center for the Arts June 26-29, 2025 Boston is coming off a terrific 2024-2025 season that featured many excellent productions and expanding audiences. For local theater cognoscenti, there’s a great … Continue reading
Three Axioms to Live By
Ever since we elected a President whose governing ethos is creating chaos and deflecting responsibility, a persistent uneasiness has settled among many in our land. When I find myself unmoored by the weird world we’ve created, I conjure the three … Continue reading
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