Clippings
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Clippings: Screenwriter tries out film critique
Of all the internship positions offered through Mansfield Hall this summer, the opportunity to write some film reviews for the Addison Independent felt the most relevant to me and…
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Clippings: Puppy became one of the family
While big, Bertha was a pussycat with her family. She’d sprawl out for belly rubs and give you an indignant glance if you stopped.
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Clippings: Taming the Cornwall bear
Over the last year or two, there have been a number of Cornwall Bear sightings reported on Front Porch Forum and elsewhere. I myself saw the Cornwall Bear.
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Clippings: The incredible shrinking shoes
A crew has been repaving our road since last week. On Friday, 4-year-old Frankie and I went to check it out.
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Clippings: 1966 series was a labor of love
I’ve become an archive nerd. I know there are some people who will read this and cheer, but for the other 99.9%, I’ll explain. A couple of years…
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Clippings: 1966 series was a labor of love
I’ve become an archive nerd.I know there are some people who will read this and cheer, but for the other 99.9%, I’ll explain.A couple of years ago, in…
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Clippings: 9/11: What 20 years has done to ‘never forget’
I will never forget how I stepped out of the shower and heard people down in the street screaming, or how it was Carolyn who heard them screaming…
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Clippings: Global thinking isn’t good enough
Global thinking is supposed to save the world.Throughout my life — and particularly as a student — I have been told time and time again that we just…
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Clippings: Le Carré more than a spy novelist
If your summer reading list needs a bit more intrigue and suspense to it, look no further than a book by John Le Carré, the English espionage novelist…
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Clippings: Everyone should read Sufi poetry
Language possesses magic.Right now, much of its power is tuned toward harm. So much of the English language has been curled, hammered and molded around colonialism. Our stories…
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Clippings: If it’s not one bug, it’s another…
The COVID-19 summer of 2020 taught us that being outside was safer than being inside, as long as you had a mask at the ready and stayed at…
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Clippings: Hey, I was just being colloquial!
I never was good at math, ever. But I liked to read as a kid, and to write. I got that from my mom, who was the wordsmith…
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Clippings: Notes of a pandemic skywatcher
I am not a winter person. I don’t like winter. Never have. I have lived in Maine or Vermont nearly my whole life. That’s probably why I don’t…
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Clippings: Hairy sidekick helps fix breaking news
For 36 years, my job was all about mingling with people. In their homes or businesses, in coffee shops, schools, office buildings, on park benches, in statehouses, homeless…
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Clippings: Obituary for a spirited rescue dog
We lost one of our two rescue dogs late last week, and one of my first responses was to write her obituary. If I were a runner or…
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Clippings: Freedom and justice before ‘unity’
U.S. presidential elections are often followed by calls for unity — or presumptions or hopes that unity will somehow prevail. Many of those calls and presumptions and hopes…