Memories of long ago: walking the road from Packer Corners to Johnson Pasture and the people there.
Great description of the communes of the day and, of course, dogs in general and Barf Barf's story in particular.
Thanks.
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Cynthia Pearson settles onto a blue settee in one of the reception rooms of the Bradley House, one of the two facilities operated by Garden Path Elder Living, the nonprofit residential care organization whose leadership she assumed a few short weeks ago. Why take the job? She enjoys working with elders. “They are amazing, they have so much to offer, and you actually learn a lot from them,” she said. In addition to the Bradley House, at 65 Harris Ave.,
Celebrate National Poetry Month with an evening of poetry readings and a conversation with Bethany Breitland, winner of the Sundog Poetry Book Award, on Saturday, April 22, at 7 p.m., at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill. Breitland will read from her acclaimed debut collection, Fire Index, and will be joined on stage with the book award's final judge Shanta Lee for an intimate conversation on craft and the healing power of poetry. Additional poets will read, including former Vermont...
Brett Kavanaugh is, perhaps, merely a symptom of the elitist old-boy network that such privileged young men are trained to tap into because that's how they get (farther) ahead in life. Go to the right schools, join the right fraternity, and become indoctrinated into the patriarchal, patronizing behaviors that support a power structure which fears (and uses, and presses down upon) women, brown people, trans people, poor people, and others who are outside their club. Dismantling this oppressive power structure...
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