MY SUBWAY trip from Kendall Square to Porter Square suffered from a slight delay to a fire department issue at Kendall Square. Fire fighters worked the other end of the platform, but a train showed up and slowly made it out of the station, despite the smoke in the air. Hopefully the smoke was harmless. […]
I SUBSCRIBE to the Writer’s Almanac that is aired on NPR and voiced by Garrison Keillor. It is usually about authors lives and sometimes it includes interesting historical dates and facts. Today’s mentioned a beer flood in London in 1814. injured people smelled like beer, which incited the people in the hospital […]
TODAY provided a prime example of no matter how jaded you might be, you can get surprised in a very pleasant way when you least expect it. Catching the Red Line up to Porter Square from Kendall Square I noticed an elderly gentleman with white hair and glasses deeply engrossed in a paperback. I leaned […]
THE READING TASTES OF most commuters do not stray far from the old chestnuts of current American reading – Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight”, Ken Follett’s “The Pillars of Earth” and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. I have seen a few more copies of “The Lost Symbol”.
Today I noticed a man, perhaps an academic of […]
THE TRAIN EERILY MADE ITS WAY to Boston today without a lot of passengers. I was in no danger of having somebody sit with me as the Columbus Day holiday emptied the morning Express of most of its passengers. The lack of people made it feel more like a late evening run than a morning […]
IT WAS LONG TIME AGO in a city on the West Coast of the US where I first tried to make my own dough and my pizza. Last week I picked up some store bought dough, fixed up a quick red sauce, and dusted off the old pizza stone to try and make my […]
ONE of the hazards of being an obsessive book lover is that you sometimes try to buy books in other countries, like England, before they are released in the US. You may be asking what’s the hazard. Well, too put it bluntly, most book cover design in the US sucks compared the UK […]
I THINK THIS STORY I FOUND via TeleRead means that things are somehow right with the world as an iPhone app version of Douglas Adams “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” outsold Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol”. Unfortunately, it is not available in the US, so I still don’t need to get an iPhone.
