There are lot of things that have come out of Washington over the past few years that have done more harm than good. Partisan divisions have hardened to the point it’s almost impossible to reach across the aisle. One place progress had been made, happily, was in reforming the criminal justice system. Unfortunately, some people […]

Some years ago, I began searching for an antidote to February. For a short month, given, occasionally, to odd leaps, it gets talked down a lot. It turned out to be a short search; not long into it I was sun struck. Here’s the short story: It’s a cloudy February day in the aftermath of […]

While browsing through the bookcase on our wall, I came across “The Real Diary of a Real Boy,” published in 1902. It is, in fact, the real diary that the author (Henry Shute) kept when he was an 11-year-old growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire. My dear mother, who also grew up in Exeter, gave […]