It takes a village
Posted in Grown-Ups: Shopping on Jan 31st, 2009
If you’re a fan of Bowl and Board you may want to think about throwing a little business their way at your earliest convenience - check out this piece from All Things Considered to learn more.
I worry alot about our local businesses in this economy, and when Bowl and Board closed the Cambridge shop and […]
Posted in Politics, Responsible citizens, Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2009
Interesting stuff here. And read more here.
Posted in Grown-Ups: Dining out on Jan 30th, 2009
Daily Candy reports the opening of the Atomic Bean Cafe, on Mass Ave between Harvard and Central - or, in my personal lexicon - a source of coffee (and presumably, bathrooms) right around the corner from that park on Hancock Street [I think the proper name is Cooper Park, for those of you who are […]
Posted in Children: Services, Grown-Ups: Services on Jan 30th, 2009
If you have embarrassingly overdue library books, time to dig them out, ASAP (OK, maybe that’s just me….)
FYI the temporary main branch of the library at 359 Broadway is closing tomorrow (January 31st) so that the city can get into the building and set it up for the fall (Cambridge Rindge and Latin is set […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Children: Health, Grown-Ups: Health, Musings on Jan 28th, 2009
During a conversation about the merits of fresh eggs, someone mentioned in passing Pete & Jen’s, which I filed in the back of my mind. Today, on a mini adventure to Verrill Farms (farm stand on steroids) in Concord, a woman working at the store told me we could get fresh eggs and save […]
Posted in Musings on Jan 28th, 2009
Who can refuse the sweet smile of your neighbor and familiar green boxes of Girl Scout Cookies? Not me. I would buy them by the dozen and put them in my freezer to hold me over until the following year (…month). Thin mints. You can take all the rest, but let me die […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jan 27th, 2009
I am pretty enthusiastic about the days it actually snows, especially if the weather obliges by working around my schedule (Saturday morning snowdays in your PJs - fabulous — morning commute through wintery mix - not so fabulous).
But I am a little tired of the mucked up, hanging-around-too-long snow we have right now, and even […]
Posted in Grown-Ups: Entertainment on Jan 26th, 2009
For all of you who are reading this from your iPhones, entertain me. I just found Pandora, and it is like unearthing buried treasure. I have written about music before, and though some of you have thoughtfully suggested music for me– we’re all from the same generation! I am all set on the eighties and […]
Posted in Children: Health on Jan 26th, 2009
Robin Young is having an interesting conversation with baby expert Penelope Leach right now re: pros and cons of daycare, differences of benefits in Europe, etc. Apparently we should all move to Scandinavia, where we would be paid by the state to stay home with our babies for at least a year.
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jan 18th, 2009
The weather outside may be frightful today, but the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra is offering a concert that’s worth braving the elements for: their FREE Annual Family Concert for kids 12 and under! You can look forward to the William Tell Overture Overture, Sleeping Beauty Waltz, and the Story of Barbar the Elephant with Ray Brown […]
Posted in Children: Camps and Classes, Children: Entertainment on Jan 15th, 2009
This first video was shown to be by a friend on her iPhone. I cried. That the video was done to Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” didn’t help. Then I watched it on the “big screen” laptop, and I cried again, maybe harder the second time.
Here’s the story summary: In 1969, two friends, […]
Posted in Politics, Responsible citizens, Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2009
The 2007 Thomas the Tank Engine lead paint scare was real, and it deserved immediate, thoughtful attention and action. What we actually got from the Bush Administration was a short-sighted, big business-friendly law called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), expected to go into effect by February of 2009.
The law’s name suggests trust–how could […]
