Last night, while shopping at the Cambridge mall, I heard dogs barking.

At first I thought I was imagining things, but because I had time to kill before my hair appointment, I decided to investigate. As I rounded the corner and came to the “get your picture taken with Santa” booth, I couldn’t believe my eyes. more…

I’m pretty sure I’m going to go into withdrawl.

For the last two years, we’ve been fed a steady diet of updates, polls, speeches, accusations and photo ops related to the US presidential race – and now, in a few short hours, it’s all going to be over.

It was a constant I could always count on, likely a daily soap opera with ongoing plot twists, interesting characters, heros and villains, scandal and unexpected developments. Even if there was nothing else going on, I knew I could catch the latest on the American election. Our own short campaign was hardly this captivating and the key characters hardly as interesting. more…