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Here’s a new feature for this site: Throwback Thursday. We’ll repost an article from the archives. Our first offering comes from 2007, the first year of this blog’s existence. It was written by Marie Sweeney about the rapidly forming race to succeed Marty Meehan in Congress. Women in the “Fabulous…
Read More »The Over-the-Hill Soccer League (2005) By Stephen O’Connor On Sunday morning, August 28th, some three thousand-five hundred soccer players, ranging in age from 30 to 70 kicked off the Fall 2005 season of The New England Over-the-Hill Soccer League. The men make up one hundred and ninety-six soccer teams from…
Read More »Magnesium Nights and Hummingbird Mornings (Isolation Scenes III) By Doug Sparks One: Landlines On Thursday night, I got a call from my mother’s assisted living facility. She is running a fever, I was told. They are testing her, again. My mom has had dementia for over a decade. When it…
Read More »Ill Wind by Jacquelyn Malone The wind whines wild and compulsive, spreading instability across the land. Shamelessly it contradicts itself, whipping—demented—in one direction, then reversing itself along an already trashed path. No one can forecast a steady state: the wind, a pompous blowhard, has no firm compass, diving into low…
Read More »The following by Linda Hoffman was originally posted on her own blog, Welcome to Apples, Art, and Spirit!, and is reposted here with Linda’s permission. The Mystery of Swallow By Linda Hoffman While in our individual quarantines we hear of mysteries revealed across the globe: In India, people can see…
Read More »“Flowers for Heroes: North Bank of the Merrimack,” a new colored drawing by Richard Marion from a sketch made while walking near Bridge Street in the Centralville neighborhood (April 2020).
Read More »Historian Paul Hudon sent us the latest from his Diary in the Time of Coronavirus. This week he invites readers into his room overlooking Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River. Diary in the Time of Coronavirus By Paul Hudon *26 April, 2020 Lord Manor, where I write this, sits on…
Read More »In mid-March I made some observations about the pandemic and how it was affecting life around us. Back then – on March 12 – school was a day away from being cancelled and no restrictions had been imposed on businesses (they came that Sunday, March 15, when Governor Baker closed…
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