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Today I joined what felt like nearly 1000 people to celebrate the life and untimely early death of a dynamo woman who made an impact across the valley and across New England. Among the speakers this morning at the very packed Log Cabin, in their biggest banquet hall, was a […]
Sunday afternoons can often be times of melancholy. I’m not sure why, but I’m pretty sure it goes back to my days as a schoolboy, thinking that no matter what I did, having to go to school was only hours away. Not that I hated school, it was just that […]
Every April 20 at the University of Colorado at Boulder, ten thousand visitors descend on the Norlin Quad to join the many thousands of students who live there for a day of civil disobedience. They light up joints, fill bowls full of weed, and flaunt their right to get high, […]
A bright, shining smile was what you got when you locked eyes with Andrea Raphael. She was always so happy to see you, in fact she was thrilled. Her passing leaves a giant hole in our community and mostly in the lives of her small children Christopher and Maeve and […]
In our age, there is a never ending quest to be the toughest and the mightiest, and it’s a battle to come up with events that are each harder than the next. It’s no longer enough to run dozens of miles and swim dozens of meters. Meet the Tough Mudder. […]
On Saturday night the Arts Block was jumping with the sweet rhythms of Nigeria when the big 12-piece band called Fenibo played their Nigerian Afro beat music for an enthusiastic crowd of dancers. Fenibo himself is the band’s only Nigerian, he’s shown at the left of the photo. Some of […]
It’s been a solid week since I went under the knife and emerged with five screws, a metal plate and the inability to put any weight on my left foot. I’ve learned what I can and cannot do and the latter dominates the list. It’s the little things that really […]
I read two pieces in Toronto’s Globe and Mail daily newspaper today that expressed basically the same idea but from a woman’s then from a man’s perspective. It was a topic that with the coming of spring, pops up every year just like the reliable daffodils. It was about looking […]
Robert D. Kaplan is a writer whose work I have admired, books like “The Coming Anarchy,” and “Balkan Ghosts” stood out with their powerful messages. He used to go to places that many people would never set foot in, and the books mixed his travelogue to danger zones and interviews […]
Fenibo plays Afropop music, that’s so infectious it’s hard to stay still. I am going to see them with Mary on Saturday night at the Arts Block, I hope I can stay off the dance floor. Not a good idea with my broken foot! LISTEN HERE
I ventured forth today, after reaching my limit of cable TV, lying with my foot up, and going no where. We decided to have pancakes at the Williams sugar house in Deerfield. As I left my bedroom I had to exit by the front door, since there is a handrail […]
So now that I’ve had five screws inserted into my fifth metatarsal, I’m settling in here for a long period of ….well, not walking. I got a nice comment from a guy named Bob Hale on my blog who reaffirmed that with a foot injury, there is really only one […]