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Writing Places
The first copies of Writing Places: A Longman Topics Reader appeared yesterday, a little over a year after Paula, George, Staci, and I started the project. It was a pleasure working with these friends during that time, and I hope the fruits of our long hours spent in Cafenation and the O’Neill study rooms will…
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Remnants of Spring
As I biked to Brighton Center this morning, I felt like I had missed the parade. In front of St. Elizabeth’s hospital the wind was blowing pink and red blossoms like confetti, gathering them into piles along the burb. With all the cold, rainy weather we’ve had, what I think I actually missed was spring.
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Farmer Ken Takes a Job
My friend Ken emailed this morning to announce he’s taking a job as the Experimental Farm Manager for The Chef’s Garden, a family vegetable farm in Huron, Ohio that sells high end produce to chefs all around the country. His job will be to test "heirloom" vegetable seeds to determine which ones might be worth…
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Green Web Design and Hosting
On the day that the Kyoto Protocol is going into affect, it seems fitting to mention a few web design and hosting companies dedicated to promoting environmental responsibility in cyberspace. With a tag lines "Connecting people and planet" and "websites powered by the wind," Earthsite’s mission is to offer "green marketing and design services with…
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Beginning Lent, by way of Hotel Rwanda
Today it feels like Lent began a few days early. Monica and I walked over to Coolidge Corner just around midday to catch the 1:30 showing of “Hotel Rwanda.” It was a gorgeous, spring-like day, with 50 degree temperatures helping the city shed a few layers of snow, dissolving the improvised landscape of snowbanks and…
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A few images of the blizzard of 2005
It’s been a week since the Blizzard of 2005, but we’re still living with the effects. During the first few days, the snow gave the city a pristine white coating, but now it’s quickly turning into a sullied, crusty mess as the temperature rises. Last night, we ran into this ravine between piles of snow.…
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Short with Delicate Wrists
Today I went to Boston Medical Center for the first time to take part in a BU med school research study on osteoporosis in men. I went primarily for the $75 I would earn for my hour and a half; what I learned was that I’m not the person I thought I was.As it turns…
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Commitment Rituals
Yesterday when I made public my profession of love for Boston, several folks responded with some insightful reflections on the nature of commitment to place. I should add that it took me six years to finally say "I love you", which indicates the commitment issues I’ve been having. It’s also a bit frustrating that I…
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Bright Leaves through a Window
Last night I biked down to Copley Square to be near the Kerry festivities. At around 2:00 a.m. I rode home slowly up Comm. Ave through a light drizzle, feeling profoundly disoriented, not quite sure what country I had ended up in by night’s end.This morning I considered posting an all black entry with no…
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Boston Skyline in Fall
This morning I was a week ahead for my meeting with Fred at his hotel by MIT. Apparently I got it in my mind that it was this Monday rather than next Monday that we were going to get breakfast, so my mistake gave me a convenient excuse to bike along the Charles on a…