Tag: anita harris

  • Free chocolate tasting Sat Jan 27: Harvard Square!

    Free chocolate tasting Sat Jan 27: Harvard Square!

    Anita Harris is looking forward to her second Harvard Square chocolate tasting, tho she has qualms about sharing the info as last year she stood in the chocolate line for quite some time. It was worth the wait, though, she says.

  • Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I

    Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I

    At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now”  for a “visionary, futuristic system”  to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial…

  • Ranger Jean Posts Fresh Pond “Rules of the Road” Signs

    Ranger Jean Posts Fresh Pond “Rules of the Road” Signs

    Writer, photographer and wunner (someone who walks and runs?) Anita Harris thanks Ranger Jean Rogers for posting “etiquette” signs for Fresh Pond, Cambridge–and confesses to occasional lapses.

  • Ani Kasten Ceramics in Concord: Inspirational Art for Precarious Times

    Ani Kasten Ceramics in Concord: Inspirational Art for Precarious Times

    Writer/photographer Anita Harris found Ani Kasten’s ceramics show in Concord, MA, inspirational. Comprised mainly of  vessels of irregular shapes and sizes,  the work is  delicate, with seams sometimes held together with thin wires, and replete with unexpected embellishments, cracks. colors and patterns that make the viewer stop to contemplate.

  • Fresh Pond’s Ranger Jean on rules of the road

    Fresh Pond’s Ranger Jean on rules of the road

    After someone gives Cambridge writer Anita Harris the finger at Fresh Pond (and, to be honest, Harris responds in kind), Ranger Jean Rogers explains rules of the road and etiquette for Cambridge’s public spaces. “We all matter and we all make a difference,” Rogers says.

  • Frankenthaler, Picasso at the Clark

    Frankenthaler, Picasso at the Clark

    On a recent visit to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, Cambridge writer Anita Harris was engaged by the synergy of art and nature expressed in the work of Helen Frankenthaler–and of the museum’s architecture and its natural setting.