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Moral injury
When our leaders– “the shepherd of the people” –fail to act honorably and ethically, it is said that the leaders have “destroyed the people.”
Jan 12
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Was I wrong: Does your home only mean that's where you happen to lay your head?
In my last column, I equated having a sense of place with homeownership.
Jan 6
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Finding Our Way Home
Back when I was growing up in the 1950s, times were tough in rural NH, which was still primarily agricultural but no longer able to compete with warmer…
Dec 26, 2025
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“That’s the way it was”
“That’s the way it was”
Dec 17, 2025
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"We all need to stick together, or we will all hang separately"
What Trump is doing “it’s enough to break your brain,”1 laments M.
Dec 7, 2025
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Communing with snapping turtles
I was inspired to write this column after listening to Patti Smith’s story about her nonverbal communication with a snapping turtle during a recent NYT…
Nov 28, 2025
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Redefining progress before we go the way of the dinosaurs
Driving to an early morning appointment in Boston, my son and I got mired in rush-hour traffic made worse by an accident: the trip took over 2 1/2…
Nov 17, 2025
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Heading toward new horizons
This column is prompted by a recent Pew Research survey that explored aging from the perspective of those 65 and older.
Nov 11, 2025
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