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PublishedJuly 28, 2012
J.P. Devine: The basement, don’t go down there
Free advice to newly married couples: Do not buy an old house in New England that has a basement. I see no point in basements. A basement is where excess water collects and where serial killers bury their victims.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2012
ON THE EDGE: Retire as Tarzan and Jane
Every couple of months or so, a certain conversation arises in our house, as it does in yours and most houses in Maine, Missouri, California and elsewhere. It's about retirement and what happens when the income one is accustomed to changes dramatically. This is generally referred to as a "period of adjustment."
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PublishedJuly 22, 2012
ON THE EDGE: Tarzan and Jane, sitting in a tree
Every couple of months or so, a certain conversation arises in our house, as it does in yours and most houses in Maine, Missouri, California and elsewhere. It's about retirement and what happens when the income one is accustomed to changes dramatically. This is generally referred to as a "period of adjustment."
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PublishedJuly 8, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Summer Pepsi nights
July 1949: With the first paycheck from my summer job making plastic feet for shoe displays at the Johnson Shoe Company, I sauntered into the Velvet Freeze, near where the street car turned, and bought Pepsi-Colas and double orders of fries all around for the gang.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2012
Nights of Pepsi love
July 1949: With the first paycheck from my summer job making plastic feet for shoe displays at the Johnson Shoe Co., I sauntered into the Velvet Freeze, near where the street car turned and bought Pepsi-Colas, and double orders of fries all around for the gang.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Couple joins ‘Gayby Boom’
Allison Bickford is having a baby, and she’s very excited. She’s had the ultra sound magic and discovered a girl in there. (Haddie.)
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PublishedJune 24, 2012
Start your list!
She said to make a list. She makes lists for everything, for every venture, and then she keeps the lists long after all of the tasks are done. I think this is serial clutter, but she rarely makes mistakes, so I made a list called Summer List.
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PublishedJune 17, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: The angst of change
I confess. I am an animist. Animism is simply a belief that all inanimate objects, such as rocks and plants, have souls, and therefore have feelings. This includes glass beads, drift wood and old soccer balls.
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PublishedJune 17, 2012
Being animist isn’t easy
I confess. I am an animist. Animism is simply a belief that all inanimate objects, such as rocks and plants, have souls, and therefore have feelings. This includes glass beads, drift wood and old soccer balls.
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PublishedJune 10, 2012
J.P. DEVINE: Ray has passed
"Dead" is such a sharp, brittle word. "Deceased" is a morgue word, an obit phrase. The old black people of my childhood seemed to concur on "passed."
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