• Ask not what your country can do for you…a visit to the JFK Library and Museum

    March 29 was a cold windy day in Massachusetts. I had taken the commuter rail into Boston and the Red Line subway to the JFK/UMass stop. Since, as usual I had drank too much coffee that morning and had to “use the facilities” as they say. In this case that was some convenient shrubs in…

  • Art, music, and sun! A visit to the Harvard Art Museums

    Well my lovelies, it is springtime and the art museums are multiplying like rabbits! And the rabbits are multiplying like art museums! 😀 Well actually Harvard has always had multiple art museums ‘cause they’re rich and if you’re that wealthy one art museum just ain’t enough! 😃 Originally the three museums, the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger,…

  • The future is now…a visit to the MIT Museum

    I had visited the MIT Museum multiple times at its old location at 285 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts and had always enjoyed the mixture of science, technology, and art exhibits. The museum was relocated to a new and expanded facility at 314 Main St. (The Grambrill Center), Cambridge, Massachusetts which is in the heart…

  • Animals, Trains, and Robots: Trains at Science Park

    For the holidays, Boston’s Museum of Science has an annual train exhibit featuring model trains and well as other exhibits. I thought that it would be a good idea to see it this year since my brother runs his own handyman business and needed a real break. We picked a Thursday since it was listed…

  • Midwinter Tropics…on a winter’s day

    As I alluded to in a previous post, I enjoy visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston during our nasty Massachusetts winters. As a matter of fact, on the recent day that I went to the museum I rode my bike to the commuter rail station on a particularly cold and windy day. But…

  • Happy F*ckin’ New Year! 🙂

    Don’t ya just love New Year’s! 😊 A happy reminder of how old you’re getting and the start of the fun of having to write a new year on your checks and job applications! It’s the wonderful time of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere when we’re freezin’ our collective b*lls and t*ts off!…

  • A Tale of Two Gardner Museums

    A catchy title, eh? But like Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, I’ve cobbled together disparate elements to make a (hopefully) greater whole. Actually, to be truthful, I’m just plain lazy 😎, but both museums do deal with America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is of course the world famous Isabella Stewart…