Posts from ‘January, 2010’

My latest web project: This year marks the 275th anniversary of the incorporation of the Town of Grafton Massachusetts. As part of this yearlong celebration, the Grafton News is compiling a virtual scrapbook of the towns history at www.grafton275.org. The site will include ‘then and now’ photos, old historic photos, documents, videos and events celebrating [...]

First official death toll release by the Haitian government on Friday following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. Deadliest Earthquakes arranged by Death Toll, Event, Location and Date: 830,000 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China 1556 250,000 526 Antioch earthquake Antioch, Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) 526 242,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China 1976 [...]

A sampling of the tweets that came through as soon as Browns win was projected on CNN: Massachusetts What Have You Done? Congratulations Massachusetts, Derek Zoolander is your new state senator. What. The. Hell. Massachusetts? Massachusetts goes to the center . . . fold Dear Majority of Massachusetts Voters: Thanks for nothing. So does anyone [...]

Guess which candidate is a lying, cheating scumbag. Scott Brown is a male Sarah Palin. If he wins Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat it will be a total embarrassment to the State of Massachusetts and to the legacy of the Kennedy family. The right wing smear masters are spending over a million dollars on attack ads [...]

Want to know what’s worse than this freezing cold New England weather? Hot flashes in the freezing cold weather. Heat on, heat off; layers on, layers off; covers on, covers off; my internal thermostat is all out of whack. I’m freezing one minute and roasting the next. I’m in the midst of ‘The Change’; what [...]

2010; sounds like a year out of a science fiction movie. Today we celebrate a new year and a new decade. Hard to believe it’s 2010! I remember when I was a kid thinking how ancient I would be in the year 2000! Well, now I’m 10 years older. The young get old and the [...]