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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron This is Happiness by Niall Williams is not a book to be read in a hurry.  Set in the remote village of Faha in County Clare, Ireland, the story is set in the 1950’s before electricity came to dirt-poor Faha. …

A Perfect Day By Malcolm Sharps Malcolm Sharps recalls a day in London in the seemingly much safer world of forty years ago: My girlfriend was from Brazil.  Or rather, to me, she wasn’t just from Brazil, she was Brazil, the embodiment of the country, she was bossa nova, she…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. GOP Governor Charlie Baker’s decision to opt out of a third-term election he’d probably have won is part of his appeal to the Massachusetts electorate. His disdain for the all-too-familiar despicable aspects of today’s political discourse has been…

Take Flight By Melissa Contover “Bienvenue a bord mesdames et messieurs” the flight attendant announces over the planes intercom making me feel as if we were already in France. Thank god I retained something, anything, from my French classes which I had taken ever since seventh grade. I could finally…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Elections matter, and nowhere has this been clearer than in Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing on abortion. Donald Trump (you remember the erstwhile lothario who was loudly pro-choice when he was openly sleeping around) pledged to name Supreme…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. People are on the move this weekend, eager to celebrate what the pandemic prevented last year. Friends and families gather, grateful that they have survived, much as popular history recounts how the Pilgrims survived their first winter…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Boston’s mayors have influenced my life since I was four years old. A May baby, I had missed eligibility for kindergarten by a few days. Early on the first day of school, my mother learned that Mayor…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Friday’s job numbers and dip in unemployment to 4.6 percent might have made it easier for Democrats running in Tuesday’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey.  So, too, might earlier passage of the infrastructure bill and tentative…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The good news for Democrats is that the mid-term elections are still a year away. More troubling is how they will  respond to Tuesday’s wake-up call. Early signs are that the moderates and progressives in Congress, organized…

Here’s a press release about statewide recognition of two great Lowell-based organizations, Angkor Dance Troupe and Free Soil Arts Collective.  Angkor Dance Troupe and Free Soil Arts Collective Selected for Statewide Initiative Supporting Community-Rooted Arts Free Soil Arts Collective (www.freesoilarts.org) and Angkor Dance Troupe (www.angkordance.org) were selected to participate in…