The ferry boat was still slowly swinging towards the pier of the dock and then backing in by inches up to the huge ramp suspended in mid-drop waiting for the boat. I was still looking to the port (left!) of the boat where the colorful lobster trap buoys bobbed up and down on the choppy water,…
Are times changing? On the topic of climate change, the Pope says yes. Department of Defense (DoD) says yes. Insurance companies say yes. And Congress says no. Whether from an anti-science bias or pro-money desire to placate fossil fuel industry contributors, members of Congress will not be getting priority boarding on NOAA’s ark. 98% of…
In my town we have a team of highly trained professionals who every year round up and evaluate, for a period of a few months, all of the prospective kindergarteners. The kindergarten evaluation machine is gearing up now, gathering information, and starting next January, it will be in high gear. First the town identifies all…
A Blast from the Past in honor of my scribbling-hater becoming a mother, any day now. . . I left work later than I should have. I took a phone call when I should have been finishing up everything for the day. As I pulled up to the nursery school I could see there was…
A BLAST FROM THE PAST from the RUNNING IN HIGH HEELS series by Jane F. Collen I was outside giving my seven-year-old son batting practice in the middle of the afternoon, abandoning the desk full of files waiting to be worked on, pitching around the blister I got from gripping my pen too tightly. I did…
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