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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 ...

Judging from the frenzied activity at my bird feeders, tomorrow's snow storm will be a doozy: lots of cheeky, fat ...

Yesterday, at Porter Square Books, I ran into Wendy Jehlen. In her mid-thirties, daughter of good friends Alain and Pat ...

Yikes. What sort of a blog is this when I post so rarely? Answer: A blog that can't quite take ...

Was reminded the other night of the dramatic, charged moments right after Allison and Christina had been born (25 years ...

What a week! What a rollercoaster ride! Tuesday night, at a bar with other aging Somerville progressives (and their kids), ...

As noted when I guest-blogged for Hope, last Wednesday's meals-and-sharing dinner conversation got a little heated (I'll link what I ...

How's this for a writing prompt: It's October 9, 2008; you're 63 years old. You have been given the opportunity to ...

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Back in the spring, when Nathan Gwirtz, the incomparable creator of this website (Thanks again, Nathan!) asked if I wanted ...

"Walk cheerfully over the earth," George Fox advised,"answering that of God in everyone." A couple of weeks ago, I took an illuminating ...

As fans of the Porter Square Bookstore readings know, often what's billed as a "reading" ain't necessarily so. The old-style ...

Last night was the Graduation Ceremony for the Carey Program. Run by the City of Cambridge's (MA) Department of Human ...

Since Friends Meeting at Cambridge (FMC) has been so much a part of the Way Opens story, the first reading ...

The books arrived three days ago, cartons and cartons and cartons of Way Opens, and I almost didn’t panic. Backstory: ...