Out For A Walk

Mar 29, 2020 | Blog

While out walking this afternoon, Martha and I noticed lots of people similarly enjoying the sunshine — walking dogs, riding bikes, doing lawn work, or something (anything!) that got the kids out of the house. We ran into a couple of friends and spent several...

POTD: What The World Needs Now

Mar 29, 2020 | Picture of the Day

On a flight home from her truncated college semester at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College, senior composition major Shelbie Rassler had an idea — get her peers who are sheltering at home to each record a piece of her arrangement of the Burt...

POTD: The Dinner Feeder

Mar 28, 2020 | Movies, Picture of the Day

This Picture Of The Day comes from Joseph Herscher, who creates clever machines in his Brooklyn apartment to solve everyday problems with Rube-Goldberg-like designs. His latest is a device that feeds him dinner… The whole thing reminds me of this scene in...

Thanks, Teachers!

Mar 27, 2020 | Blog

When our daughter was two years old, we sent her to a “cooperative” pre-school. That word in quotes meant parents were called upon to come in and help out in the classroom on occasion. There was a schedule set up to have either a mom or dad act essentially...

Curly Neal

Mar 27, 2020 | Blog

I’m saddened to hear of the death of Harlem Globetrotters legend Curly Neal at age 77, and reminded of two instances when he and I were in the same building — first when I was a boy, then later as an adult. After watching Curly, Meadowlark Lemon, Geese...

An Astronaut Reviews Space Movies

Mar 26, 2020 | Movies, Science

Vanity Fair has a video series featuring people critiquing movies based on their own areas of expertise. Among the best are: an undercover FBI agent talking about mob movies; choreographers breaking down the “Dirty Dancing” finale; scientists fact-checking...