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Finding Winter

This winter in Connecticut has been awful – not cold enough, not enough snow. I remember my first New England winter 20 years ago. I had...

Black College Nines founder Jay Sokol received my email more than a year ago after I discovered his fine website through my typical...

Old newspapers and magazines fascinate me. I get lost in them, bound in musty hardcover a year at a time, a man alone in a library room...

This year, I am concentrating my efforts to create more, and more regularly. One of those areas is my visual art. Whether it's a...

Few will be the times when a hot water holding tank malfunction leads to an enjoyable experience. I don’t know this for certain because...

Facebook/Farmington River Tubing The kayaks have leaned up against the side of the house since I took them out of the garage in May. We...

The thing about Andre Dawson was his presence in the batter’s box. A hulking, imposing man prepared to club opposing pitchers into...

The moment occurs about two and a half minutes in. We've been carried along by the mellifluous and delicate arrangement of a well-known...

In the course of researching and writing a book about the Georgia-Yale series of 1923-34, I discovered another forgotten series that...

Lemme shoot straight with you. When it came to Daytona Beach, Florida, I was close-minded and presumptuous, guilty of stereotyping one...

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