October 2019 I don’t have many heroes, so I was particularly upset when one of them died this morning. My wife’s nephew, John Patrick Hayes departed this world at age 42 leaving behind a woman who should get sainthood right now, in my opinion, and two special needs foster kids. John had much to overcome…
September 2019 NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) may have graduated to BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody) in Centerville. According to the Cape Cod Times the town of Barnstable is trying to put in a pumping station on a third of an acre on Main Street to service a new sewer system for…
September 2019 One day in the mid-50s, my father was sitting with his book at the dining room table in our two-family house in Allston. The doorbell rang and a guy probably in his 50s came up the stairs to the hall in our second-floor apartment. When he got there, he said “Fred sent me.”…
July, 2019 When I was growing up in the 50s, my mother supported a family of five by working from home, telemarketing. She had no computer, no Internet, and no communications system. She had a heavy black phone with a rotary dial. She sat at one end of the dining room table for five or…
July 2019 Our housing supply has not met housing demand for some time now. A study released recently by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found that in 2018 the U.S. built about 260,000 fewer homes than it needed to keep up with population growth and an aging housing stock. According to the Wall…