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Living Madly: Moby Chip By Emilie-Noelle Provost My husband, Rob, is obsessed with the chipmunks in our yard. Each year, beginning in late winter or early spring, when the first pocket-sized rodent pokes its head of out of one of the portholes in our lawn, he starts tracking their daily…
Read More »Boarding School Blues: Ch. 59 By Louise Peloquin Ch. 59: Wilted Balloons Madeleine’s report on the headmistress’s telephone exchanges with Docteur and Madame Rejean discomfited Andy, Titi and Blanche. “So you’ll be able to go home every single weekend from now on PF” Madeleine announced. “Your father woulda pulled out…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Recently defenestrated Chris Licht is now the former CNN chair and CEO. He had been successful in his previous roles, including show-running the Stephen Colbert show, but he was in over his head – running one of the the three…
Read More »Besides our own Lowell, Massachusetts, here’s a list of other places in the US that share the name: Lowell, Arkansas – Benton County. Population 9839 in 2020. Incorporated in 1881. Lowell, California – An unincorporated community in Napa County. In 1992, Lowell annexed into American Canyon. Lowell, Florida – An…
Read More »On June 5th, 1944, one day prior to the largest seaborne invasion in history, General Dwight D. Eisenhower penned a brief, potent letter. With great trepidation and acceptance of the burden of leadership, Eisenhower composed a note that would only see the light of day if the D-Day invasion failed.…
Read More »Remembering D-Day which took place 79 years ago today. On June 6, 1944, a pivotal event unfolded on the shores of Normandy, France, forever altering the course of World War II. D-Day, also known as Operation Overlord, was the largest amphibious assault in history, initiated by the Allied forces to…
Read More »The entry below isa being corss posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Global warming is no longer an abstract theory. Forget about the hockey-stick-shaped graph correlating the rapid rise in temperature with the fossil fuel-based increase in carbon emission in recent years. The data have real-life implications for every…
Read More »Earlier today I traveled to UMass Lowell’s South Campus for a program presented by the school’s Saab Center for Portuguese Studies. “North of Boston: The Portugues American Experience Beyond the Hub”, included presentations by academics and researchers from Lowell, Somerville, and Portugal. I was among the speakers. I promoted the…
Read More »Sunday, June 18: 12:00 pm Mass in French honoring St. Jean Baptiste. (French/English worship aid provided.) At Immaculate Conception Church, 144 E. Merrimack St., Lowell, MA. Light refreshments and naming of the Greater-Lowell Franco-American of the Year will follow in downstairs church hall. (Stair-free access on Fayette St. for upper-church…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Rachael Rollins seemed to have such promise. She was a gutsy woman, highly articulate in a no-nonsense way. Willing to stand up to hardened criminals. Eager to challenge a cookie-cutter system of justice with an ingrained preference for…
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