Author Archives: Maja Ramirez

Thank you for your article on the Organic School Project [“What’s Wrong With School Lunch?” May 25], primarily at Alcott, where my daughter Morgan attends preschool. I can attest the kids can be mulish about changing foods–they’d had months to get used to the standard fare, after all. When her talking toy “Blue” asked her […]

Small communities that–feeling they have no better alternative claim to fame–host overeaters’ competitions [“Overeating for Fun and Profit,” June 30] are truly pitiful. The man in the crowd decrying the prize money Pat Bertoletti wouldn’t get when he vomited up those dozens of tamales (“That’s $2,500 he just put in the trash”), like the many […]

Thanks for letting us know about cutting-edge boutiques. Please tell Sara Lenart [Boutique of the Week, May 13] that although I love coral, I won’t be buying any, because I love it where it belongs–alive in coral reefs. Now, if you could spotlight all environmentally conscious boutiques…Wow! Maja Ramirez Master Gardener/Tree Keeper Old Town

As Anthony Wilson learned [“The Victims of Victims,” October 1] those who cannot control their anger will find control imposed on them by the law. Those who have problems controlling their inclinations toward alcohol or gambling or drugs can go any day to meetings for free, of AA or GA or NA, but those making […]

To the editors: I found it telling that Lynn Becker [“Lofty Goals,” April 9] would remark: “Of the 86 structures added to Emporis’s list of the world’s 200 tallest buildings over the last ten years, the United States accounts for just 10.” Emphasis mine. Does this reflect on his own ego, his second justification, as […]

Hope you can stand another letter on the toilet-seat raiser [“Pipe Dreams,” September 15]. Obviously this guy has never done market research of a woman with a child, parcels, or an infirmity (even a temporary medical problem, like having crutches after knee surgery, makes for difficult and slow going). Trying to fit and manage these […]

[Re: “Rob Sherman’s Bad Year,” December 17] To the editors: Rob Sherman’s friend (who is all the way off in Utah) professes that “the Sherman he knows would never beat his son” and that because Rob “often talks proudly about his wife and kids,” that means he “just doesn’t fit with the abuser image.” What, […]