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The Mobile Pantry of the Merrimack Valley Food Bank provides good food, health info, and social contact for Greater Lowell residents, “many of whom are single elderly women, living alone, economically challenged, and have long term disabilities.” The Mobile Pantry serves more than 320 people, each month bringing 35 pounds of…
Read More »NYTimes columnist Bob Herbert keeps beating the drum for his fellow Americans who are suffering most in this stubborn economic downturn. Today, he cites letters written to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont by people whose lives and faith in the “system” are shaken. Read his thoughts here, and get the…
Read More »George DeLuca of cometolowell.com says get your Jack-hats on for the Kerouac party coming in March, which is previewed in a recent radio interview with grandmaster musician Dave Amram: “There’s a David Amram interview on ‘Blues and Beyond’ radio with Dick Lourie, both of whom will be playing at ‘Jack’s…
Read More »Dana Gioia, poet and former boss of the National Endowment for the Arts, many years ago wrote a book titled “Does Poetry Matter?” The inside back page essay in yesterday’s NYTimes Book Review by Robyn Cresswell (poetry editor of The Paris Review) had this to say about “Egypt: The Cultural…
Read More »Snowing. It is snowing. It’s snowing. I don’t have to say, “It’s snowing out,” because it snows out, not in. You’d never say, “It’s snowing in.” The snow snows like the rain rains. Snowing means snowflakes falling. Have you ever seen or heard those many words for “snow” that Eskimos are…
Read More »When the pee-wee hockey players poured onto the ice after the first period at the Tsongas Center last night, they looked like bees swarming the face-off circle. There must have been 12 on each side, which made it tough to eject the puck from the scrum that shifted from one…
Read More »Salem, Mass., has a new marketing logo and slogan. Read the boston.com article here, and get the Globe if you want more.
Read More »Forbes’s columnist Rick Ungar writes about the Koch brothers and their money in the Wisconsin struggle. Thanks to Nomi Herbstman on Facebook for the link.
Read More »I had coffee with a good friend this morning, and we got around to talking about what the heck we are doing with our waking hours, aside from earning a living doing work that we are fortunate to have the opportunity to do. We all have a certain number of…
Read More »David Corn in Politics Daily skewers Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) for mangling the truth and showing no mercy for those about to lose jobs due to federal budget cuts. Corn has a surprising wrap up to his column that he titled “Naked Lunch.” Here’s the opinion piece, which I picked up…
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