Some thoughts on a strange day

Marathon I live less than five miles from the finish line of the Boston Marathon, so it’s embarrassing to admit that the attacks had almost no tangible impact on me.  I don’t watch the race– I have for the past 25 years now held a job in an industry (banking) that does not take Patriot…

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But I don't get sick

I’m looking for someone to blame Readers, I don’t get sick very often.  I try to maintain a decent diet, I bike to work nine months out of the year, and… okay, I also smoke 4-6 cigarettes a day, but only the additive-free kind!  (Yes, in Cambridge we even go green with our bad habits.)…

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