The Newfound Fact of Fiction

When the real increasingly becomes the surreal, where does one turn for a dose of the truth? Maybe back to the original lie: literature. Six years ago, when it was revealed that James Frey’s memoir, A Million Little Pieces, had originally been submitted to...

Han Solo High

It’s beautiful that an architect went to the trouble of making a high school look exactly like the Millennium Falcon from above. Call people “geeks” if you must, they’ll still be smart enough to win the day. And you might not even know...

Larcenous bees

The boarders love blueberries. We pick a bundle every year at Birdhaven Blueberry farm. That hardly satisfies the yearly need. My parents have wild blueberries that my mother collects by the jug-full each August when she’s not busy worrying. We eat these in...

Mothers & Humans

At just before nine Sunday morning six eighth grade boys wished me a Happy Mother’s Day as we pulled into the parking lot for their Frisbee tournament. A few had forgotten to say the same to their mothers. One has two dads and the kids reminded him he...

Guns, Gambling and Money

Recently, a reader left me a voicemail drawing my attention to some strange doings at the Smith & Wesson shooting center. She’d shown up there a couple of times for safety instruction but found the place was closed, and workers there had few satisfactory...