Buzz on Hiatus

We’ve had a full plate the past few weeks – buying your first house and planning for a move is no piece of cake, especially while keeping on top of  your day-to-day to-dos.
We’re moving in to our new house in a couple weeks, work is bopping, and I’m also now keeping on top of two other blogs [...]

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Critter

‘Twas three days before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…except for a crafty mouse.
Our premises have been breached by a stealthy intruder. The casualties thus far include some peanut M&Ms and a brand-new bag of delicious Cape Cod potato chips (sea salt and cracked pepper). No one has yet been [...]

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End of Summer – It Ain’t So Bad

The unofficial end to summer has come and gone (Labor Day), the official end to summer is fast approaching (Autumnal Equinox)…and I couldn’t be happier. This is the best time of year in New England. Sure I love summer, and yeah, the dwindling daylight is a bummer, but there are just so many things I [...]

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Wacky Week – Our House Didn’t Burn Down

This week might just be my wackiest yet of 2008.
So, to kick things off on Monday night I attended the Publicity Club of New England’s annual Bell Ringers – the Oscars of the New England PR world. I enjoyed myself – food was good and I loved the steel drum band. The award show usually runs [...]

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Energy Efficiency: Low Hanging Fruit, Ripe for the Picking

…crude oil $125 per barrel, climate change, energy independence, insufficient electricity infrastructure, volatile prices, and the list goes on…
Energy efficiency is probably the most successful but least appreciated strategy for dealing with the significant energy challenges we face in blazing our country’s path to prosperity during the 21st century.
For example, U.S. energy consumption at the end of [...]

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Home Sweet Massachusetts

Lucky for Dorothy, she had a cute 3-bedroom 2-bath house with a picket fence on an 8-acre farm  in Kansas to think about when she uttered the famous words “there’s no place like home.” If she were living in an apartment with Auntie Em, Uncle whatever-his-name-was, Toto and the rest of the [...]

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Should We Stay or Should We Go?

FRB, Boston – Between 1995 and 2005, home prices in New England increased by 85 percent, compared to an increase of only 56 percent nationwide. The growth in house prices was far greater than the growth of real incomes, meaning most households in the region have seen the affordability of housing decline in recent years. As a result, there’s been [...]

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