Tag: Seacoast Village Project
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Gundalow
6 August 2025 In this brave new world of OpenAI offering both “companionship” for the lonely and the undoing of education as I once knew it, I’ve been seeking solace from such discombobulating changes in the macrocosm—and in my personal microcosm as well. The latest physical annoyance in the latter: floating bodies—chips of bone in…
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Crowded with incident
3 February 2025 Here we are, nearing the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, and I am tallying the ups and downs of the past fortnight, beginning with the medical marvel that is the cardiac ablation I had at Mass General in Boston on 21 January: heart surgery as out-patient procedure. Is’t…
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Necessary Distractions, Before and After
8 November 2024 For several weeks leading up to Election Day, I was trying to find reasons to hope—or at least to calm the malaise made physically manifest in vague nausea, weakness, and occasional arrhythmia. I found many temporary reprieves, one in the accommodating generosity of the folks who tended to my lawnmower and others…
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Comfort and Joy
1 August 2024 Yowza. July was the month that was: first the terrible debate fallout, then the attempted assassination, then Democratic despair over Biden’s determination to continue campaigning, and THEN CrowdStrike’s global software meltdown, followed on Sunday, 21 July by President Biden’s astonishingly brave and patriotic announcement that he was standing down, Vice President Harris’s…
Georgeann Murphy 