Isn’t it funny how we use abbreviations in everyday language and sometimes never actually know what it stands for? A few months back, I was asked to “RSVP as soon as possible” to an event I had been invited to. We all know that means I need to get back to the host as to [...]

Today, I’m running in a 5k road race for the Somerville Homeless Coalition, a non-profit that provides services to Somerville’s “homeless, near-homeless, and working poor”. I was never a runner in high school or college and I didn’t really train for the race. I’m doing it partly because of the cause, but it’s also because [...]

I could never understand people who say “I can’t cook” or who were always impressed when I would tell them that I almost always cook homemade meals and usually bake from scratch. Believe it or not, making food from scratch really isn’t that hard! I mean, we’re not talkin’ milking-the-cow-and-growing-the-wheat from scratch. But I think [...]

Have you noticed how “donations” and “charitable giving” has changed as a result of the digital age? Usually when we see those words, we think about physical donations like money, gifts, clothes, furniture, etc. Obviously this type of giving is still true these days (and may be even more true than a hundred years ago), [...]

We all know this guy to the left here. His name is Ronald Popeil. You know… that rotisserie chicken product. “Set it and forget it!” It may just be a simple catchphrase, but I think that phrase describes a style of life. Nowadays we have so many things going on, so much interconnectivity between people [...]