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I read a great book last week. Again. By Jack McDonough The next best thing to reading a good book is finding a good book. While finding The Book is the goal, the search for that next great read is fun, too. It may be like deer hunting. You know…
Read More »Here is a roundup of upcoming virtual events from near and far that may be of interest to our readers: Pollard Memorial Library Jenna Blum Author Talk Sept 15 at 6pm This is the Pollard Memorial Library Foundation’s Meet the Author event featuring Jenna Blum, the author of Those Who…
Read More »In keeping with the education theme this month, here’s an excerpt from a memory book I’m writing. Some sections are built on related, even if partial, recollections—in this case experiences during my college years. At times, memories can be like bits of mica shining in a chunk of stone you…
Read More »Before a neck injury in 2005 Irish poet Monica Corish spent many years travelling, living and working in Africa. Based now in Co. Leitrim, in her poems here Corish brings the reader from the sublime beauty of a night spent on a mountaintop near Lokichokio in northern Kenya in her…
Read More »Still Learning After All These Years By Henri Marchand It was the last day of August when I began to write this essay, Labor Day when I finished. In my mind Labor Day weekend always meant the end of summer vacation and September first the start of fall even though…
Read More »Friends in the Lowell cultural community will remember Patrick Gentry Pierce from his time in Lowell. His art studio on Middle Street helped create a buzz in the downtown cultural district for several years. This is his first appearance as a writer on this site. I have a good memory…
Read More »Lesson Plan By David Daniel At five minutes to ten on a Wednesday morning I am standing in a small storage area at the county house of correction, waiting for my GED students. The 16-by-16 foot space with gray block walls, pipes overhead, and a single window with bars giving…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The most discordant note in Joe Kennedy’s elegiac concession speech on Tuesday night was his observation that, even knowing the outcome, if he had to do it all over again, he would do it “in a heartbeat.” Giving…
Read More »On Thursday, August 27, 2020, I logged on to “Lowell Lines District Mapping Info Session,” an online forum hosted by CMAA, Massachusetts Voter Table, Lowell Alliance, and Latinx Community Center for Empowerment (LCCE). The purpose of the session was to gather information for the creation of new voting districts in…
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