A wooden leg full of boredom

As I listened to election coverage last night, I got as bored as a peg-legged pirate at a podiatrists' convention. While I'm not entirely sure what Long John Silver would think of that metaphor, I'm relatively certain of one thing–when it comes to...
Wellness: Dropping Out of  the Insomnia Culture

Wellness: Dropping Out of the Insomnia Culture

How can we sleep when our own thoughts, our households and our life styles make sleep impossible? When our children turn day into night and night into day? When our cell phones won't stop ringing and our friends and workmates are muttering, "Sleeping is for...
Harmonizing for Hospice

Harmonizing for Hospice

Young@Heart, the well-known troupe of elderly choral singers, makes its way back home for a local performance at Mount Holyoke College after another seaon of globetrotting.Born in 1982 in a Northampton housing facility, The Young@Heart Chorus has become famous,...