Aimee and I attended Mark’s one man show at The Casali Group in Davis Square, between Sacco’s Bowl Haven and Meacham Road in Davis Square. I had no idea he painted, much less that he painted really interesting, intriguing interior scenes, devoid of people but full of light that is beautifully rendered. Aimee and I […]

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Does anyone remember when getting the mail was the highlight of the day? I remember long summer days when the hour of the mailman’s delivery would rule the day, and multiple runs up our long driveway were made in anticipation. Am I making it up when I remember using binoculars or a telescope every once […]

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When I went to eat my cereal this morning, this sight greeted me out my kitchen window: I asked myself, “What is the official motto of the U.S. Navy?” Because I can’t believe that alongside the Marines’ “Semper Fidelis” and the Army’s “This We’ll Defend” (ok, had to look that one up), the Navy would […]

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I finished my triple-bill of appointments this morning with a visit to the dentist. Since my last visit, she has, sadly, hired a hygienist, who now performs the cleanings. I’m sure it’s good for her, as the dentist isn’t really supposed to do the regular checkups, but I miss her singing along with “another thirty […]

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I don’t go to the doctor much (touch wood), but a confluence of events has led to me schedule three doctor’s appointments in four days this week. Today’s was with the eye doctor, which is always fun. The doctor was a kind, older man, though nothing much like my favorite optometrist of childhood (my approximation […]

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Aimee and I had a terrific anniversary dinner at Ten Tables in Jamaica Plain last night, prefaced with the best parking spot in the whole world (want to see if you left something in the car? Look out the front window of the restaurant), and topped off with a crazy ice cream sundae with peanut […]

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Cuchi Cuchi in Central Square is a gem – I don’t know why we never ate there before. We had an amazing array of food and drink there last night, surrounded by lamps, beads, kimonos, stained glass, and Charo-related art. After we left, Aimee and I strolled past the former location of Mama Gaia’s Caf? […]

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So I grew up a little today. I finally got a suit – or should I say, Aimee got me a suit, as she tries to class me up a little bit – my first real, honest-to-goodness black suit. The fact that I now have a suit makes me feel like an actual old person, […]

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Someone needs to give the Cambridge Parking Authority some handwriting lessons. Aimee and I got a ticket a week or so ago, and I went online today to check on it, because I was curious to see if the license plate was entered correctly. Sure enough, the ticket was on record for someone else’s plate, […]

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Hung out with Josh, Chris, and Kirstin from my old job at The Field tonight (check out their site: Christmas 1998 e-cards!). And when I say “job,” I mean the job where three of us used to work, and where one of us still works, three years after the rest of us lost our jobs […]

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As I walked to work this morning, I saw some sad news in the windows of The Museum of Useful Things and Black Ink @ Home just down the street from me: it (they?) plans to move to 49 Brattle Street in Harvard Square sometime this spring. I’ve always been happy that an actual store […]

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File under New Yorker mistakes: I’m not one to complain about unfair coverage of the Red Sox, but it struck me as pretty strange that in the “Talk of the Town” article on the A-Rod trade in the March 1st New Yorker, Boston Mayor Tom Menino was mistakenly called “Mayor Michael Menino,” as if the […]

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Aimee took me to the Marché restaurant in the Copley Place Mall for something different. (Wait – turns out it was the Prudential Center – where does one mall end and the other begin?) I don’t know when I last went out in the Back Bay, much less in a mall, but it was fun, […]

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Three things Aimee and I learned about the T tonight:1) It now costs $1.25. Where have I been since January 3, 2004? Answer: not on the T.2) Dan was right: some Red Line trains now have stickers on all the door windows that say “These doors do not recycle.” Even if we assume they mean […]

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The new Cambridge City Office at 57 Inman (not its official title, I don’t think) opened today. As I walked to work today I saw the first bikes attached to its new bike rack, and the first employees in the building taking their first cigarette break. As long as I’ve lived in Boston and Cambridge, […]

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