To many women, the Donald Trump who debated Hillary Clinton was painfully familiar. They’ve encountered men like him all their lives: fathers and husbands, boyfriends and brothers, bosses and teachers. Faced with the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination, Trump treated her with palpable disdain. He smirked and sneered, erupted and interrupted […]

Donald Trump is an egomaniac, a racist, a liar, and a cheat, and he has no idea of public affairs or foreign policy. So say his critics and opponents, some of them members of the party that has nominated him for president. The media has uncovered his misdeeds, some of them possibly illegal. If that’s […]

I got about a million-and-one “likes” from my Facebook buddies when I announced that I had started grad school. Not surprising, I suppose. The words “grad school” carry a certain weight to them. It’s a phrase that’s bound to impress people, even if you’re headed back to the classroom just to learn the finer points […]

This is the first full month of autumn, and it will bring with it a radical transformation of our lush green summer landscape into the dramatic and memorable flaming foliage of fall for which New England is so famous. This is also a great time to get outside under the night sky to experience more […]