Working for a newspaper helps keep me well informed. I like listening to the top news stories at the top of the hour to make sure I’m not missing anything. But the latest round of happenings in the world left my head spinning (and not in a good way). Last week’s breaking news […]
I surprised my son with tickets to the women’s Boston Roller Derby competition at the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington. I thought a night at the roller derby would make a unique birthday present. (My son turned 32 years old , so I’m running out of gift ideas.) I also thought it would be […]
Winter, we hardly knew ye. And now it’s March and winter should be winding down, losing steam, whimpering out. Instead, thanks to the wacky weather pattern of 2019, winter seems like it’s only just begun. There’s no doubt that our climate has changed. And it seems we New Englander’s have changed […]
American opinion seems divided on the necessity of building a wall on the southern border of our country. I tried to decipher the opinion polls. I wanted to know where the majority of people stood on the subject, but polls are tricky. The answer depends on which news service conducted the poll. The […]
A Monday morning flat tire! What a wonderful way to start the week. I haven’t had a flat tire for years. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to change one. The spare tire hidden somewhere in the undercarriage of my 2008 SUV has never seen the light of day. The bolts were rusted on […]
This article was written over a two day period last weekend. There was so much happening in the world, one session at my keyboard just wasn’t enough. Saturday 01.19.19: I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. An antiquated expression but that’s the feeling today brings as I wait for the […]
It’s another Saturday mid-morning at Kushala Sip. What is it about a coffee-shop atmosphere that inspires the creative writing process? Is it the soft jazz? The ambient noise? The muffled conversations of patrons at other tables? I wasn’t purposely trying to listen but snippets of people talking would bubble to the surface every few minutes […]
