This holiday season has me more moody than I can ever remember at this time of year. Part of it is just missing departed loved ones more. And then, well, just about everything going on in the world seems to be stupid right about now. So early Saturday afternoon, as we rode the Blue Line to […]

As Beth wrote in her Sunday post, we spent a wonderful weekend with our friend Lydia, who moved to Cambridge to take a job with Harvard Magazine. Lydia’s a gifted writer and a solid reporter to boot—she just won an award for this article on the human biome that she wrote for the University of […]

The Thanksgiving break was welcome, but it just wasn’t in the cards for us to get out of town. But I did find an escape a few miles from home in the steam of a Turkish sauna, the desert heat of the dry Russian Sauna, and all-in-all a different world at the Chicago Sweat Lodge. […]

It’s been a blur of a week so today’s post, forgive me, will be short and may be a little splintered. I spent most of last week in Washington, D.C., starting with a gargantuan conference and trade show called Greenbuild. The organization I work for —PHIUS—exhibited there, and my colleagues and I staffed the booth. […]

Hi Folks, We watched the Oscars last night and were surprised and delighted when Spotlight — the only Best Picture nominated film Beth and I saw — won! It managed to be suspenseful, well-paced and gripping–all without a single explosion or any special effects. To celebrate, here’s a post from November 16 last year that […]