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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. As many of us sit down to bountiful Thanksgiving dinners, it’s all too easy to forget about the more than 17,000 homeless people in the midst of well-off Massachusetts. We have the seventh highest per capita rate of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remember Entebbe? Look it up. It was the site of a 1976 Israeli operation to rescue 248 hostages from an Air France flight captured by Palestinian terrorists and given sanctuary by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. The non-Israelis were…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. No matter how heavy the topic of the following books any one of them can be a temporary departure from the world around us, helping us better understand the seeds of today’s chaos . Time’s Echo: The…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. My husband and I are no longer COVID virgins. A two-week bout with COVID, from which we’re just emerging, left me feeling disinclined to write but very much inclined to seek comfort in reading. Fiction was the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. In a recent surreal interview, ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy blamed the Democrats for the chaos in the House of Representatives. (He wasn’t the only GOP official trying to sell that bill of goods.) The public isn’t buying it. Let’s be clear. McCarthy…

The entry below is being cross postred from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Did W. B. Yeats have it right? “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” Such are one’s fears today. The United States government is…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. It started with three sites. Now there are three dozen more places where auto workers have gone on strike, seeking a better contract. They follow by months the many writers and actors striking the entertainment industry for…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Facing 2024 elections, GOP strategists have come to understand the widespread anger spurred by their opposition to letting women control their own bodies. The issue is galvanizing voters, so Republicans want to seek a new name for the pro-life…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band by Boston journalist Carmen Fields is a memoir of her father, trombonist, pianist, music arranger and band leader of the Ernie Fields Big Band. The saga covers many of…