CBWC: Roads From Maine to Connecticut and from downtown Boston to the Blackstone Valley. The roads run everywhere. Even when you don’t know where you are going, you are going somewhere.
Traffic
WHAT WOULD STEVE McQUEEN HAVE DONE?
It must be payback. Karma, hubris, or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night when… Read More ›
OUTBOUND, INBOUND – THE ROAD GOES EVER ON AND ON
I don’t know how many times we’ve driven to and from Tom and Ellin’s house. While we never are lonely on the road — there’s always been company — it was an easy drive. Even when it was raining or… Read More ›
CMMC – PICK A PHOTO TOPIC
So this is it. The Classic format is gone. It’s block only. My problem with this is that it does not properly display multiple photographs — and I can’t find the pieces of format for which I’m looking. Menus vanish… Read More ›
FIVE THINGS I DON’T MISS ABOUT COMMUTING
5 Things that you miss about your daily commute. I contemplated leaving this page blank because there is nothing I miss about commuting. I did tens of thousands of miles of long distance commuting. Audiobooks were an outgrowth of the… Read More ›
AN EARLY EVENING BECKONS – Marilyn Armstrong
It was one of those days. It started out normal. We had to get up a bit early because I had a doctor’s appointment and even though we left plenty of time, we got out of the house a bit… Read More ›
CURSE OF THE LEISURE CLASS.
Once upon a time in a life long ago, I worked hard. I don’t know if you could call it overworked. I never felt I had more work than I could do — if only they would let me get… Read More ›
CORRECTING A WRONG TURN – Marilyn Armstrong
Once upon a time, I had a job in Connecticut. My daily commute was 140 miles — each way. I only worked three days at the office and worked the other two at home. Even so, after a few months,… Read More ›
PLAY TAPS FOR ME – Marilyn Armstrong
It was one of those days. It started out normal. We had to get up a bit early because I had a doctor’s appointment and even though we left plenty of time, we got out of the house a bit… Read More ›
ON THE ROAD AGAIN – Marilyn Armstrong
Not a rainy day nor a sunny one. Just a day. Cold, no snow or rain. Coming home from Connecticut. Feeling better about the world. Good thing I had a camera. Traffic was mostly bumper-to-bumper from when we left the… Read More ›
USING A GPS IN NEW ENGLAND – Marilyn Armstrong
When the GPS’s first came out and the prices dropped from ridiculously high to more-or-less normal, I was an immediate consumer. I was working in Groton, Connecticut which was more than 140 miles from my home. Even though I didn’t… Read More ›
WHERE IS STEVE McQUEEN WHEN I REALLY NEED HIM? – Garry Armstrong
It must be payback. Karma, hubris – or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night… Read More ›
CAR-MA AND COPS – Marilyn Armstrong
It was a lovely crisp Saturday morning. I was heading north out of New York to visit Garry in Boston. I don’t remember which car I was driving. Probably my turquoise VW Rabbit, my personal pocket rocket. I am not a slow… Read More ›
INTREPID BY ROAD – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Intrepid Intrepid will always be the name of one of Horatio Hornblower’s ships. Somewhere in my 20s, I discovered Horatio Hornblower … and that’s how I learned that there was an actual use for trigonometry! If only… Read More ›
TIME FOR A DRINK! LIFT YOUR GLASS TO BECKYB – Marilyn Armstrong
Time for a Drink for BeckyB! It was party time in Massachusetts. I would probably have been content to stay home and process bird pictures, but Garry felt we needed an airing. Also, he wanted to find out how his… Read More ›
DYING IN TRAFFIC – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Traffic When we lived in Boston, traffic was life. It was like getting up in the morning. It was getting to work, the grocery, the doctor. Anything and you always had to calculate how much “extra” time… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 