What happened to the News?
A couple of days ago after reading the Boston Globe website for news I decided to take a look at what the BBC had on the homepage of its website. There in the center...
Author: Chris Garrity
Memorial Day
The highlight of Memorial Day weekend around here is the annual softball game. This was the tenth year that Colleen and Phil have held it. Once again, the weather was great and everyone had...
Grilled Monkfish
We got our last delivery of the spring CSF today – monkfish. Monkfish is kind of nice. It comes with the head already taken off (you really don’t want to see the head), and...
Scuba is the new Golf
The Media Lab named its new director this week. Folks around the Lab are very excited to see what Joi Ito will bring to the Lab. On Tuesday after the announcement we had a...
College visits
Tom and I have been visiting some colleges in North Carolina and Virginia. Wednesday we visited Elon, which was very nice. Then we headed up to Blacksburg Virginia to see Virginia Tech. VT made...
Snowy January
Last year we didn’t have much snow. This year we’ve had lots of the white fluffy stuff. I don’t think the snow bank beside the driveway is over my head yet, but it’s VERY...
Braised Beef Shanks with Root Vegetables
The February issue of Better Homes & Gardens came, and it included several great looking recipes for cooking meat on the bone. It included this recipe for Beef Shanks with Mushrooms and Olives. It...
Shrimp Scampi
One of the nice things about belonging to a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) is getting exposed to things you would never try on your own. I’ve never been a big shrimp person, but when...
