Janie Matrisciano

by janiem I have a huge topic in mind that maybe someday I’ll boil down into a coherent post. It involves the misuse of technology, community, and each other implied by — the constant barrage of spam email (which requires various kinds of investments, whether time or $, to deflect); — the increasing number of … Read more

by janiem The screenshot below is from boston.com as of this morning (Thursday 4/13). In case the text is blurred in the reproduction, the circled headline reads, “Jury in ex-NFL player’s trial to deliberate for 5th day.” The headline was there for a couple of days before I realized that the ex-NFL player referred to is … Read more

by janiem 1. One weekend, years before I moved here, I was driving around the back roads of Maine with some friends. We came to an intersection, and I gazed out the window of the car as we paused to decide which way to turn. Right next to us was one of those little general … Read more

by janie m Blog communities are like “real life” communities in some ways, and not like them in others. In my experience there are very few real life groups where a departure wouldn’t be noticed or commented on, but with blogs someone can just not comment one day, and no one notices, because well, people … Read more

by JanieM A couple of summers ago, after years of procrastination, I got a lawyer to help me rewrite my will. We also drafted a power of attorney for money matters and a health care advance directive. One of the reasons I had been procrastinating was that I wanted to write a novella-length response to … Read more