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Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard Author’s Note: This column is being re-run due to popular demand. BOSTON Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—2/27/12—Recently, an extreme level of coldness settled into my essence. It has nothing to do with the endless snow that we’ve been getting. The frigid catalyst? I was referred to (by whom, it doesn’t matter) [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard Author’s Note: This column is being re-run for my beloved critic, Shelly. BOSTON Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—For all the right, practical reasons, I ride the ‘T.’ The ‘T’ is Boston’s answer to mass transit. Within is my inferno. I drive 25 miles to participate in this coordinated hysteria. I pay [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard BOSTON Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—12/26/11—You guys must be so tired of hearing about my housing escapades but, I tell you, it just keeps getting better. Seriously, I couldn’t make this stuff up. So, come to find out the lady downstairs is a wee bit beyond insane. Nothing strange about that. [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard Searching In this blizzard of so called snow We search for reasons to know Ice and fire we try mixing We freeze and burn dreadfully slow. We only talk missing it all. You have another—wife she’s called Why, not once but twice, answered ice No, to say yes [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard Here’s a nice little tidbit for a quick summer read. I dug this one out especially for Jennifer Morrison, simmering down there in North Carolina. Stay cool! BOSTON Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—There is something under the house. At various times, night and day it makes monster sounds. When it rains, [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard Editor’s Note: This 2010 column by “F. Theresa” was just too good not to post again this year. BOSTON  Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—7/18/11— Some of you may remember that I promised to share the story of my truly existential afternoon at Fenway Park. So, here goes . . . All [...]

Status: Quo Minus Moving In & Moving On: Theresa Signs Yet Another Lease by F. Theresa Gillard BOSTON Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—5/30/11—I am moving yet again. Heaven forbid I stay in a rental for more than a year. I’m beginning to believe that what my aunt says about me is true. She believes that I have a [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard BOSTON Massachusetts—(Weekly Hubris)—3/28/11—I work in an office with a door that has a lock. Not uncommon. Although I firmly support the “open door policy” in general, I am often forced to keep my door closed. This causes much ire in my office, which leads on to idle speculation. [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard BOSTON, MA—(Weekly Hubris)—2/7/11—On the way to work, I notice the time displayed: 8:07 a.m.; and the temperature: 0⁰. I do a double-take. Zero what? As in degrees? And, it’s this sort of denial that gets me through these frigid winter days. Let’s not even mention below-zero wind-chills. Don’t [...]

Status: Quo Minus by F. Theresa Gillard BOSTON, MA—(Weekly Hubris)—1/17/11—I have this little story to tell. Honestly, I’m full of ‘em. Of course, it’s mostly about me. So, I traveled to South Carolina for the holidays. Yes, I did say, “traveled.” Meaning I boarded another aircraft.  Really, there’s no other way. Well, there are other [...]