Have a Day

by | Dec 9, 2010 | The Public Humanist

As one who once dropped out of an excellent small college in Vermont in the middle of sophomore year as a result of having to say “Hi” to everyone I passed on campus, I may be thought to be too dyspeptic to write on “the compulsion to be...

Overnight

by | Dec 9, 2010 | Standing In The Shadows

You know how sometimes it seems like kids grow overnight? A few weeks ago, it hit me that my twelve year-old tweenager seemed to have matured overnight. We were talking before bedtime and suddenly he was asking me about my writing project. A few days ago, he told me...
Play in a Day

Play in a Day

by | Dec 9, 2010 | Stage

The weekend before Thanksgiving, the seventh edition of the 24-Hour Theater Project was staged in Northampton. In the space of one day, six plays were written, rehearsed and performed. The Advocate’s theater critic, Chris Rohmann, was one of the directors....

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Dec 9, 2010 | News

Put the Planet First In early November a delivery of nuclear waste en route to a “disposal site” in northern Germany met with some unanticipated obstacles. Dozens of farmers lined the route, blocking roadways with their tractors. Trees and stumps cut down...

Between the Lines: What's News?

by | Dec 9, 2010 | News

In the latest example of a society allergic to measured responses and shades of gray, the reaction to the WikiLeaks dump has been embarrassingly in the red. Julian Assange is a hero, a freedom fighter, a speaker of truth to power. Or he’s a traitor, a rapist, a...