Dan Dunn

Allan and BarbaraTosti 38 Teel Street Arlington, MA 02474 781 646-4599 abtosti@rcn.com Our daughter, Nora Tosti, died one year ago. We are planning to have a one hour candlelight vigil in her memory on the anniversary of her death, Friday night, December 8, from 7-8 P.M. on the sidewalk in front of Bournewood Hospital, where […]

Tuesday, November 28 – A Plague in Arlington: Coping with the Influenza of 1918 7:00 PM doors open, 7:30 PM start, Town Hall (730 Massachusetts Ave). Arlington Historical Society Lecture, Dennis J. Ahern presenting.

http://www.mcsnh.org/A Christmas Tapestry A Child’s Christmas In Wales by Matthew Harris with string quartet and Charlie Blood, piano December 2, 2006 8pm St. Joseph Cathedral 145 Lowell Street December 3, 2006 3pm The Abbey Church – St. Anselm College 100 Saint Anselm Drive

http://www.mcsnh.org/A Christmas Tapestry A Child’s Christmas In Wales by Matthew Harris with string quartet and Charlie Blood, piano December 2, 2006 8pm St. Joseph Cathedral 145 Lowell Street December 3, 2006 3pm The Abbey Church – St. Anselm College 100 Saint Anselm Drive

Check out this 6-minute YouTube video. The long-repressed mechanical engineer in me loved it. His neighbors must hate him.

One Wednesday, the Globe wrote a top-of-front-page story about Romney’s appointment of his communications director Eric Fehrnstrom to the Brookline housing authority. The story detailed how this appointment would entitle Fehrnstrom to a state pension: “While the Brookline position is part-time and pays only $5,000, the pension Fehrnstrom receives will be calculated based on his […]

Thanksgiving was the annual trip to Dedham to my grandparents’ house. The usual suspects were there. Uncle John stole the show with dessert – a three-layer cake that looked like a turkey. See my Tabblo

Please, someone notify the metaphor police. This photo exceeds all metaphorical safety margins. See my Tabblo

The best links on the web have the word “unsafe“. My favorite is “Cochiken.” I loved the theme music the first time. By the 5th video I was annoyed. Great marketing, no doubt.

There is an interesting story in today’s New York Times about Clinton’s Senate campaign spending. She spent $30 million on a re-election campaign. That number is meaningless without comparison, so here it is: “The only other Senate candidate to come close to her spending level was Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, who spent about […]