I’ve just posted a gallery of pictures taken of English Country Dancers taken last weekend. Enjoy! *** Years ago, one May Day morning, I walked past Holyoke Center on my…
In Nice Guys Finish Last (1975), Leo Durocher wrote: ‘There will never be a ballplayer as good as Willie Mays, but Reiser was every bit as good, and he might…
I could tell of our trip to watch team steer roping at the Tom Cox Arena in Mayer, Arizona, as a ‘shaggy dog’ story. And I shall. But it’s a…
A ‘defiant requiem’ seems a contradiction. But not when a chorus of 100 Jews interned at Terezin in 1944 sang Giuseppi Verdi’s ‘Messa da Requiem’ to their Nazi captors and…
Considering the US through the prism of stories in the Bahamian press reveals facets of the flawed, cracking diamond that is our country. Drug Wars Uber Alles The Punch, The…
Publisher’s Note: The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut observed a ‘day of awareness’ of the Anglican Church’s complicity in and profit from the African slave trade. This homily by my friend…
Caught in flagrante delicto, a Richard Pryor character challenged his wife, ‘Who you gonna believe — me or your lying eyes?’ Whether it’s on the health effects of tobacco, coal…
It’s not often an article so lodges in my head that I must reread it three days later. Such is ‘Rotten Ice: Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic’ by…
What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…
The Pawtucket Red Sox, the beloved AAA PawSox, around decade’s end will be reborn as the Providence Red Sox or, worse, the Rhode Island Red Sox. The ProSox (support hose,…
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