Sunday Morning
Shortly after sunrise, I am awakened by Caboodle’s plaintive mewing outside my bedroom door. It is 5:31 a.m. Although I have attempted to explain the difference between weekend mornings and workday mornings to my three felines, they insist on treating the days uniformly. I greet this day with a groan and rise to feed the [...]
Farmer’s Market, CVS, and Airport Expansion Update from Steve Stycos
From Democratic Candidate for City Council in Cranston’s Ward 1, Steve Stycos: FREE SAMPLES Tammy Watson of Mazie’s Organics will offer the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market’s first cooking demonstration Saturday starting at 10 AM. Tammy, who lives in nearby Washington Park, makes organic prepared salads and does catering. This is her first year at the [...]
Congratulations Felicia
During the time I worked with the Coalition Against Human Trafficking I met many concerned and dedicated men and women who wanted urgently to extend help to people who were coerced into prostitution or involuntary labor. One of the women I immediately liked and trusted was Felicia Delgado. Felicia is herself a survivor of drug [...]
Some Good News
There should’a been a law, long ago, and now there is. Slipping someone a controlled substance in order to commit a crime is now a felony.
A Light Goes Out in Cleveland
Harvey Pekar died today at age 70, all too soon and badly missed. While he’s best known for the movie version of his masterpiece, ‘American Splendor’, the actual comic books are still in print– in anthology form even. He was a great original voice, writing the day to day and recruiting some of the best [...]
Beating the Rap
The Governator must be breathing a sigh of relief. California will be spared a high-profile, expensive legal mess and Roman Polanski will stay in Europe– the Swiss refuse to extradite him. I was not happy with the prospect of him coming back and straining our overloaded criminal justice system. I would like to see some [...]
Local Tomatoes at Pawtuxet Village Farmer’s Market
From Steve Stycos: TOMATOES Tomato season is beginning at the Pawtuxet Village Farmers. Real tomatoes are an unmatched summer treat, whether cooked or fresh. In recent years, supermarkets have presented vine ripened tomatoes year round. A March New York Times article detailed how they are grown. Quaint sounding Backyard Farms in Maine grows its tomatoes [...]
Heart-Warming Tale
Hot enough for you? This recent heat wave—with the temperature reaching triple digits here in Western Massachusetts earlier in the week—has made me a tad cranky. Excepting my bedroom, in which I installed an air conditioner in the window on Tuesday, my abode is like a sauna. But it could be worse. Much worse. I [...]
Along the Rail Trail
I don’t feel much like writing, so I will instead pass along more scenic photographs of the Manhan Rail Trail here in Easthampton. (The previous pics are here.) If anyone is interested, I used a Canon PowerShot G11, which was rated as the best point-and-shoot digital camera in the current issue of Consumer Reports. I [...]
America the Beautiful
Some music for the Fourth of July, one of our loveliest patriotic songs. Written in 1893 by Katharine Lee Bates, an instructor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts… America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, [...]
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