One week from today, I will be 35. I have the '80s song "Final Countdown" in my head. Not only will I say farewell to the 25–34 demographic, I will also say farewell to the 10-year-old photo on my driver's license. I think it may be the best photo I've ever had taken. I was... Continue Reading →
Last night I volunteered at an annual fundraiser for 826 Boston, a tutoring and writing center. One of the great things that the organization does is publish students' writing every year. How thrilling for children and teenagers to see their writing in a real book! This year's book launched at the event. Actually, two books... Continue Reading →
Busy weekend at the Independent Film Festival, between volunteering and watching films. I saw four interesting documentaries. One was about Sasha Shulgin, a brilliant chemist who re-discovered the compound for the drug Ecstasy in the '60s. He liked to experiment with psychedelic drugs, in a scientific sense. He thought that these types of drugs could... Continue Reading →
What a crazy week it's been. Am heading to visit my friend Daisy in the glorious land of cheese, beer, and green hills. Hope everyone has a good weekend. Next week will be even crazier, because I am helping out with the amazing, stupendous IFFBoston. This is my seventh year of volunteering. The festival is... Continue Reading →
Mary came over yesterday and helped me make funnel cake. It was delicious! But how can anything deep fried NOT be delicious??? That kit was definitely worth three dollars. I was a cat bio machine today...I was the only cat biographer and there were 10+ bios to write. So I didn't have much time to... Continue Reading →
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