As of this writing, I would bet the Red Sox will win the World Series. In beating the Saint Louis Cardinals, they will be recognized as the most accomplished team in baseball.
That’s the kind of team they have proved to be this season. To my mind, their success is owing, in large part, to one non-player. That’s John Farrell, their manager, who brought the team from the depths to American League champions.
In the houses where my family lived as I was growing up, books abounded. Loads of them filled the shelves in our living room and many others resided in the bedrooms of our parents and those of my siblings and me.
My father was a newspaper man–reporter, columnist, and editor– and took it as part of his work to read widely. Buying the latest books was made easy for him, thanks to Victor, a fellow who regularly came around the offices of Boston newspapers and sold the books at a reduced price.
Last evening, I attended a forum of some twenty-five candidates for election to our city council. In between two of the sessions, I went out of the auditorium into the corridor to see friends and acquaintances. To my surprise, one of those I encountered was a college classmate and near neighbor, Martin Karplus.
Frequent phone calls, frequent mailings, occasional front porch visits – – these are the way we figure in the current race for the 5h Congressional District seat. Our former congressman, Ed Markey, served my part of town for only a few months, before going on to a senate seat.
Yesterday, October 1, marked the first time I have composed a talk by speaking instead of by writing. To do so I used a new program called Dragon dictate for the Mac, surprising me by spelling virtually all my words correctly.
Where are the best places in the US to live if you want to age successfully? If you guess cities in Florida or Arizona, you are wrong.
New rankings broadcast earlier this month on the PBS News Hour, present five choices among large metropolitan areas. You may be surprised to discover that our area, described as Boston-Cambridge-Quincy Mass–New Hampshire, finishes in fourth place, ahead of New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, which finishes only fifth.
Several days ago I received the following email:
“Congratulations on your birthday. You happen to be my senior- by 3 months.
Are you and your equally aged brethren in the U.S. as concerned as I am about the goings on in the world? What about the young?