If you measure an addiction to a smartphone by the number of downloaded apps, I should probably be in rehab. I have three full pages. And that’s after bundling at least a third of them in subject folders in groups of six and nine. I so often ask Siri to set reminders and alarms for […]
Jan Brogan
Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, a staff writer for the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal, where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy, Confidential Source, Yesterday’s Fatal, and Teaser. She grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, and moved to New England to study journalism at Boston University. She holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She continues to work as a novelist and a journalist, and she teaches writing at the Boston University Summer Journalism Institute.
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How to better experience an Art Museum
Dead winter. Even when it’s not snowing or gray and rainy, it’s still cold. Perfect art museum weather. Maybe you think you don’t like art museums. Maybe you feel like I used to: When I got my chance to go to the Louvre in Paris to see the Mona Lisa, I compared it to shopping […]
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The busy life tax
It began with a bill from the company that had serviced my central air conditioning the year prior. I received a bill, a very high bill, for an annual checkup that I had not yet scheduled nor received. Although the company was nice about reversing the charge, it took two and a half years and […]
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Independent Bookstores thriving as community centers
On a cool, clear, Wednesday evening, a group of women who get together monthly to read and critique children’s and young adult books meet in the outdoor café area of the Blue Bunny Book store in Dedham. They listen attentively as one member, a third-grade teacher from Brookline, recommends the kinds of illustrated books that […]