Dear Mr. Dukakis
Dear Mr. Dukakis, I read the article about you in the Boston Globe a few days ago. At first I thought just that…
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The Treat Williams dream
In last night’s dream I was lounging in a slouchy, ’50s-teenager kind of way against the corner of a building on the Harvard…
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Bless your heart
People in many regions of the country have their distinctive dialects and colloquialisms. One man’s dinner is another’s supper. Y’all and youse are…
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Hillary’s pneumonia, imagined
H, to Aide: “I feel shitty. Cancel that thing in the morning and get me in to see Dr. Y. Better yet, have…
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Movie kitchens
My friend Rob, whose sharp eye and opinion I respect, put something on Facebook the other day about the kitchens of someone called…
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More bad words
As soon as I was able to make sense of words I heard words or bits of dialogue in movies or on television…
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Mistaken identity
There are people who are good with names and there are people who are not. I am one of those people who are…
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My dream with Jim Belushi and the cronuts
Last night’s dream has me perplexed but no more than usual; I’m surprised by neither the content of my dreams nor their occurrence…
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