By Bill Primavera
By Bill Primavera Sometimes I think The New York Times is reading my mind, or vice versa. I had been considering writing a piece about the joys of outsourcing jobs around the house when I opened the paper to find
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera From time to time, I pick out snippets from my past columns that readers tell me they enjoyed. Here are some I enjoyed as well. How I First Learned About Sex With the pending demise of the
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Some years ago, I wrote a piece with this same title and, since that time, my wife has purchased two new vacuums. Having tried them both only once, (I’m not a big vacuum guy) the crude expression
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When was the last time you actually wrote a letter to a friend with a pen on paper, placed it in an envelope, sealed it, affixed a stamp, left it in your mailbox and raised the red
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera It’s been almost three years since I gave up two-story living in a colonial single-family house for a one-floor luxury condo. The most noticeable difference during that time is that I’ve gained weight. For most of
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera As I sat one morning in an old Hitchcock kitchen chair that had been hitting me at the wrong place in my back for more than 25 years, I grumbled to my wife, “Why do I subject
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera It was in the same week that my wife looked up from the lifestyles section of the newspaper and asked, “Did you know that green is the most soothing color to paint a room?” that my painter
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera About five years ago, I wrote an article about the advantages of staying put in the same home over a period of years, rather than moving every four or five years, which was the average length of
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Statistics say that more than 55 percent of us pray daily. Surprisingly, far fewer of us, only 8 percent, meditate each day. But I would venture to say that all of us would want to seek a
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera In real estate, when we talk about location, normally we are referring to the town, neighborhood and street address of a property. We should also consider how the natural and cultural resources of our region influence and
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