So this is how it ends. After 15 years of service to the company, I was given an hour to pack my desk and leave. No time to say good-bye t...

I have been thinking about leave taking and the phrase, "this will be the last time..." quite a lot lately. You see, after almost ...

I think it would surprise the folks that know me casually to find out that I channel Donna Reed when I get home. I really and honestly do. I...

I've been traveling a lot for work lately. Ok, that is a mild understatement. It seems all I do is get on an airplane, get off an airpla...

I like to consider myself a renaissance woman. I am well traveled and well read. I love the joy of a good book, a good meal, a good con...

Is there anything more exhausting and mind numbing than a week long sales meeting? Ok, maybe climbing a 14,000 ft+ mountain or running the B...

I now know where the happiest people in the world are and it isn't Disney. I have just returned from Salt Lake City , having spent the ...

I don't know what possessed me to to do this. Maybe it was because I was thinking about baking MBH a batch of his favourite cookies (ehr...

"He's the one! I know it this time! I'm letting someone into my life for the first time ever!" I'd been trying to igno...

When did we as a nation abandon common sense? When did we forfeit the ability to act on our own without the aid of signs and reality TV host...

I'm not one for superstitions or for that matter one who necessarily believes in old wives tales but I always believe the Groundhog. Tha...

"Boy, you really are a nerd aren't you?" - business colleague to me after I explained 2nd order sound reflections and how they...

It finally quit snowing and thankfully the Boston weathermen kept their perfect record of completely mispredicting the severity of the stor...

The National Weather Service in Taunton MA continues the Winter Weather Advisory and Wind Chill Advisory for the Boston Metro area: Winter...

I hate the month of February. I find myself not only getting the seasonal "blucks" in February but I find that I get more introspe...

I ask you, is there anything more wonderful than the smell of bread baking? Not just any bread mind you but the quintessential American whit...

I love holidays that don't require my presence in the corporate rat trap; especially when it snows or rains on those days, forcing me to...

Shhh...don't tell the groundhog but I think it may be spring! It sure looked like spring out there today, bright blue sunny sky with wis...

I'm a Post-It junkie. My monitor at work is ringed with staid yellow, neon green, vibrant pink, and powder blue Post-Its. Some lined, so...

Seems there has never been a better time to be a principal oboist wannabe.... Oboist Wanted Signs - NYT 2/12/05