Random Thoughts, the Twelfth

We are now three weeks into 2012 and, at this time last year, New England had already received dozens of inches of snow and pretty much a blizzard a week. My, how the times have changed. Despite a freak Halloween weekend storm and a few smaller storms last week, Boston is experiencing a shocking dearth [...]

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

No, this post isn’t a reference to a Paula Abdul song, but rather an example of how I feel sometimes as I try to get a hold of this “being a grown-up” thing. It’s a new year and the now-concluded holidays of Christmas and New Year’s are often a time for major life changes for [...]

2011 in Review, Part One

Last December, I participated in Reverb, an online initiative that gave bloggers prompts so that they could reflect on the past year and look forward to the new one. Reverb wasn’t back this year, but I still liked the idea of reflecting on the past year, so I’m borrowing the prompts from last year and [...]