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Lots of blather, post the Cosby verdict, re "cognitive dissonance." Male blather. So, guys, let me spell this out for ...

Walking to Meeting on Sunday, I passed a couple of  Ant "dockless" bicycles in front of Harvard's Science Center, a new ...

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes—especially now—a news story is not the news story. Sometimes what seems significant isn't ...

"Enemies Should Know That Syria Will Never Fall—Assad/Syria Will Never Fall—Assad" by Nazgol Ansarinia, 2012. A newsprint collage currently on ...

Dr. Lynda Woodruff, my mentor and friend, died last week. Hearing this awful news, I registered both gut-punched grief and ...

Maybe another foot of snow due tomorrow, maybe another opportunity to use our "neighborhood snowblower." After a very snowy ...

New England weather such as it right now, I'm reading more. Needing to replenish my books-to-read queue, between storms I ...

For decades I've been following a "kamish broit" recipe I got from an ex-husband's step-mother, Sarah Lohman. (Got that?) These ...

Sunday, chilled, rainy, very windy, I'd almost wished there'd been a fireplace fire in the meetinghouse fireplace. Surely a hearty ...

I visit a man in "Seg." (as in Segregation) Aka "The Hole" or "Solitary Confinement." (Once, on the phone, while ...

Yesterday, spurred on my my oldest daughter's curiosity about my beloved "Grandma," I spent a couple of hours in the ...

Sometimes I visit an art museum as if expecting to be tested. I study everything, read everything, skip nothing, dutifully ...

Not a visual person and all too willing to lose myself in whatever movie I'm watching, at one point in ...

Enough with the pussy hats! Okay? If we're really going to smash the patriarchy, my sisters, if all who ...

Sometimes it just hits me: my easeful life is made possible by the labor of thousands, millions of men and ...

A joke my Lynchburg, Virginia high school classmates used to tell; maybe they still do: Didja hear about the guy ...

May good people walk beside you. May you find strength and joy in community. May you receive "Good Will, Support, ...

Pretty sure I learned about the winter solstice from a textbook—in sixth grade, maybe. Dimly I can conjure up the ...

Last week, doing warrior pose in yoga class, I remembered how, right after Trump had been elected, my usual ...

Caught in another traffic jam, my husband and I agreed: "Right this minute, half the people in Greater Boston are ...

My first day at my new, Lynchburg, Virginia high school, a classmate confronted me: "You're a Yankee, aren't you?" ...

Saturday after sunset, driving back to Massachusetts from Vermont, it began to rain. I hate, hate, hate driving in rain ...

Sunday morning found me, earrings and bracelets and watch-free, being escorted through the long and eerily empty corridors of the Souza-Baranowski ...

Like many "Villens," Ralph Hergert had dual citizenship: Somerville and Cambridge. So it was not surprising that although a long-time, ...