In a recent excavation of my mother's walk-in closet, I discovered our old Western Electric telephone. I believe it is a Design Line-->Celebrity-->model 2940 telephone. Overall, it's in good working ...

A few decades ago, I owned a home in one of Boston's western suburbs. The house had been built during World War II, when nobody with any business building houses was doing so. But that's another story ...

Last fall, my plain old telephone service (POTS) stopped working. There was no real mystery as to why: The gorillas I hired to build a deck on the back of my house had plunged their clamshell digger ...