No one except Mitt Romney and his immediate family seem to know his official residence, now that he has sold his mansion in Belmont, Mass. He's still got his weekend/summer place in Wolfeboro, N.H., on Lake Winnipesaukee and a house in toney La Jolla, Calif. (home of the late Dr. Seuss, by the way).

But as a very rich man, does it really matter? He can be as mobile as he wants to be. If he wants to run for president again, he can run from anywhere, though it might be a lot easier to get going with a Republican base camp like Utah. That's why his recent sale of his Utah ski place seemed, at first glance, mystifying. But then, maybe he worries too much about the Mormon typecasting that that might engender nationally.

It's far too early to know whether he'd run anyway. It depends largely on how the economy responds two or three years out into the Obama administration. What might draw in Romney is runaway inflation caused by the massive deficit spending now under way. His best chance would be to run as someone who could put the nation's financial house in order, even if he couldn't -- running as a non-neo-con, old-fashioned Republican businessman. A sort of Taft Republican.

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Summer is coming. Get ready for Granny Squibb's Lemon/Mint Tea, an exciting new New England product from which I will derive absolutely no income, in kickbacks or other payments, in kind or monetary.

It's been invented by film editor Robin Squibb, of Rhode Island, New York, Hollywood and secret places in-between. Can she use her show-business connections to get adequate product placement in the next Brad Pitt movie?