Even while we are out and about wearing our snow boots, using our shovels or snow blowers, skiing down mountains, or even engaging in a friendly snowball “exchange,” it’s never too soon to prepare for the summer. In fact, the winter months are the best time to prepare to reduce the browntail moth population before […]

Housing Resources for Youth — our organization’s name doesn’t say much about the specifics of what we do day-to-day. It’s discrete, and a little cryptic. The name doesn’t show the complex and beautiful relationships between homeless youth and their host home providers. It leaves out the long conversations about school work, friends, or the latest […]

Popular democracy reversed after 2020 elections

Stephen Breyer will leave a legacy that reflects the Supreme Court he joined nearly three decades ago – less fractious and less partisan than the bench he is reportedly set to leave at the end of the current term. When Breyer was nominated by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, he was not a controversial […]

Do kids in school today still get in double dutch (remember that one?) if they say “ain’t”? We sure did. “Ain’t” was strictly forbidden. The stuff of detention. We were told it was a bad word, vulgar, common and simply not allowed. “Ain’t,” my haughty school principal Mr. Herrick would say imperiously back in the […]

About 35 years ago, I was visiting my dad in Delaware. His car had a major problem, so we went to a garage that he had heard good things about. The mechanic methodically checked out all possible sources of the problem. My dad said to me, “That fellow knows what he’s doing.” And I responded, […]

In these inflationary times it’s not easy to laugh as you watch the value of your hard-earned savings being destroyed. But I chuckled out loud when I read some of the tips offered by Bloomberg News to beat inflation, which is at its highest point in more than 40 years. Since Americans have enjoyed low […]