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Within minutes of posting the last, brief acknowledgment of  discouragement, my doorbell rang. My neighbor and her sister wanted copies ...

I sold 0 books at Yearly Meeting. I am discouraged. And confused ...

Saturday, a glorious summer day, I was picking up windfall apples in the front yard when a scruffy-looking guy walked ...

Since every Greater-Boston commentator, black and white, is weighing in on the recent Skip Gates incident, why should I be ...

As you may know, I usually spend my Wednesday nights at my Quaker meeting breaking bread and talking with several ...

[Background to today's blog; much of this info is discussed in the last chapter of Way Opens. Scroll down to ...

Having recently taken a workshop on unlikable characters (Takeaway: Don't get hung up on some readers' need for sympathetic characterswhen ...

Last night I went to my first Transition Somerville meeting. Still a little unclear on the concept, I'm pretty sure ...

In today's Boston Globe, there's an article about Hobson City, Alabama, a "small town which once thrived as a rarity: ...

[OOPS! This SHOULD have been posted last week. So sorry] Here's a description of the Community Dialogue written by Leslie ...

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On Sunday morning, just as we were settling into worship, the Mormon church across Longfellow Park from Friends Meeting at Cambridge, ...

This morning, when I saw a woman wearing a surgical mask walk past my house, I added another reason to ...

Way Opens: Year I has just ended and, on the whole, I'd give it a B+/A-: good readings, good response, ...

Today is Patriot's Day which, to Boston Marathon or Red Sox fans, must seem like a silly name for this ...

When step-son Jeremy and his wife, Vita, invited David and me to travel with them and their toddler daughter Sasha ...

We're back after a wonderful CA trip a little jet-lagged, a little weary—but robustly certain we're blessed by an amazing ...

Three times last week I heard tragic, dire stories from Palestine. Last Sunday, Gay Harter* showed slides of her trip ...

My dear friend Delia sent me a New York Times op-ed piece by Charles M. Blow re Attorney Eric Holder's ...

Like Dickens, who walked the streets of London twenty miles a day, walking though my beloved community is integral to ...

This past Sunday during meeting for worship, Katie Cullinan, a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, led all of us ...

Earlier this week, right after lunch, I was on a Boston subway train (aka "the T") and, since it wasn't ...

Today in meeting for worship, a message came to me. What was strange about this particular message was that it ...

Yesterday morning, after beloved grandson Dmitri and his equally beloved parents had gone home after our wonderful Christmas together, David ...

The problem with not writing for The Somerville Journal anymore AND taking a break from novel-writing is that everything, EVERYTHING ...