by Hayley Wood | Jan 7, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Massachusetts abounds with fun and picturesque family destinations, and many of them get gussied up for the holidays, throw parties, open houses, and create special creative opportunities for children to make things in festive settings. Spread some holiday cheer in...
by Christopher Volpe | Jan 15, 2014 | The Public Humanist
“Out of the bosom of the Air,/Out of the cloud-folds of garments shaken,/Over the woodlands brown and bare,/Over the harvest-fields forsaken,/Silent, and, soft, and slow/ Descends the snow.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1902) As...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Jan 31, 2014 | The Public Humanist
As a Bostonian who was watching the race on April 15th 2013 that was marred by the senseless act of terrorism carried out by two Chechen-Dagestani-Americans which killed three people, I had a sickening sense of de ja vu as I watched recent media reports of as many as...
by James Heflin | Jan 6, 2014 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Obamacare is hardly an unqualified success, but the folks who want to return to the status quo are clearly not a majority, despite the current caterwauling. Interesting stuff via a CNN/ORC poll: A CNN/ORC International poll also indicates nearly six in 10 Americans...
by James Heflin | Jan 7, 2014 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Back in the saddle after a mad round of holiday, family, friends, birthdays, and such. Been a good December. Since my most faithtful reader needs a place for his orphan comment, here’s a subject to which his commentary might appropriately be appended. Long story...