From a coworker:

My mother who had a career as a school psychologist, moved to Southern Maine in her forties, having lived in Cincinnati since girlhood. Early on, she was testing a kid, and asked him, "Can you tell me what a hat is ( Read more... )

I'm transferring to a team at Google Seattle, much to my surprise (well, to the surprise of me a month ago or anytime in the past few decades, more accurately). Planning to move there, along with Alice, around early February, but keeping the house in Cambridge with intent to return in a few years...

Oh, we also have to figure out how to move a

My friend Dan Cohen, one of the most effective and skilled people in progressive politics I have ever met, wrote this on Facebook today. I posted it on my Facebook too (and if you have an account, please like/comment/share so more people will see it), but asked him if I could copy to here for people who don't read Facebook.

"Everywhere people ( Read more... )

Hurricane Matthew hit rural southwest Haiti yesterday hardest, cutting much of the peninsula off from the rest of Haiti (roads and communications) for at least a day, and killing at least a few hundred people. If you have money to donate and are looking for good organizations to donate to, consider Fonkoze.

Fonkoze arose from the Fondwa Peasants ( Read more... )

I was reading about a congressional race in Colorado, where a woman named Morgan Carroll is challenging Mike Coffman and seems to have a chance. What I read about her seemed promising so I wanted to know more, and wrote a friend in Colorado. He co-founded MassForDean here in Boston many years ago and I worked closely with him on that for a year, ( Read more... )

I've been seeing a mockingbird in the park near my house on the way to work in the morning, or on the way back, for several months. Several times I've seen two of them together. One time in April I got a nice video of one of them singing in a tree with my phone. And then in mid-May, I saw one of them tending a nest, in a small tree right by the ( Read more... )

[I asked permission to take photos at every studio pictured in links from this post ( Read more... )

Since my post concluding that Clinton will get the Democratic nomination, people keep asking me if I think anything changed after Bernie Sanders' surprise upset win in Michigan ( Read more... )

Enough states have voted that the end is getting clearer.

TL;DR: Probably President Clinton. Well, it was already the most probably outcome before any primaries happened, but it's getting kinda close to near-certain now. Here's how I see the numbers...

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Recently, they made a zinnia bloom in space ( Read more... )