On the road, both home and away
I’m going to Planning Board tonight, with a bunch of neighbors, to talk about our neighborhood. It’s a beautiful place. You really should buy a home there. I, personally, have no complaints about my...
View ArticleIt’s a great day, isn’t it?
My day started at 3:30 a.m. “I need to sleep,” I muttered, squinting at the clock. “I have too much to do today. I can’t have insomnia.” By 4 a.m. I was up and about. Surely a little reading lull me...
View ArticleForecast calls for jangled nerves
By this time tomorrow, it will all be over. I’ll be second-guessing myself, wincing at some of my responses. I’ll be driving home with my sunglasses on and something loud on the iPod, the better to...
View ArticleQuickie update
I barely touched a computer yesterday — my day consisted of prepping for my interview, going to my interview, running home and talking about my interview, bolting dinner and running to Selectmen (where...
View ArticleStupid snow closings
This takes the cake — or snowball, as the case may be. I just went online to file my weekly unemployment claim (I’m hoping this won’t go on for much longer) and received this message: This online...
View ArticleFastest rejection ever!
I applied for a newly posted job this morning on a certain popular jobs site. It wasn’t quite what I was looking for but, what the heck, I’m firing resumes at just about any target that’s close (but...
View ArticleOver 3 hours without answers
The guy sitting across from me is on his third unemployment extension. He names the company he used to work for — you’d know it, you probably have its products in your house — and tells me he got a...
View ArticleGoodbye, The Daily Voice
Four years. I should be hearing “Pomp and Circumstance.” I should be lined up on a stage, waiting for a diploma. Four years. That’s an education. Four years ago, I teamed up with Jack Schofield to...
View ArticleHow NOT to close a news site
Grafton readers are awesome readers. I have said this for the past five years, starting with this blog and moving on to the various incarnations of Grafton sites — GraftonTimes.com, The Daily Grafton,...
View ArticleObituaries for the Daily Voice, in Grafton and beyond
I was pulling out of Crosby Road onto Millbury Street when the truck in front of me abruptly stopped. I was about to swear when Peter Adams jumped out. Of course it was Peter Adams. How did I not...
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