Author Michael Skinner addresses childhood trauma and abuse in new book, The Lunchbox Theory

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

It is a gritty, necessary and ultimately hopeful book that details his amazing journey from soul-crushing physical and sexual abuse to an advocate who’s addressed both Washington D.C.’s National Press Club and Georgetown University’s conference on “Children in Slavery-The 21st Century Summit.” The latter was sponsored by both the State Department and the United Nations.

Meredith Hall: The toughest journey takes you home

Friday, April 10, 2026

Meredith Hall’s memoir Without a Map (Beacon Press; 2007) and novel Beneficence (David R. Godine; 2020) turn on single shattering events that leave families emotionally adrift before navigating decades-long journeys involving loss, missing puzzle pieces, redemption and ultimately forgiveness and love.

Ink Link Publisher/Editor Carol Robidoux shares what makes local news tick

Monday, March 9, 2026Sunday, March 8, 2026

Carol Robidoux, New Hampshire Press Association’s 2020 Journalist of the Year, addressed a group of 25 UNH OLLI life-long learning members on Friday afternoon at UNH’s Manchester millyard campus.

Ink in the Wild – May Sarton: ‘If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?’

Thursday, February 12, 2026Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Writer and poet May Sarton prefaces her 1968 memoir Plant Dreaming Deep with an untitled poem whose last two lines are “…Homeward at last toward the native source /Seasoned and stretched to plant his dreaming deep.”

Goffstown holds vigil in honor of lives lost to ICE violence: ‘We are at a precipice’

Friday, January 30, 2026

Approximately 225 people attended a candlelight vigil in Goffstown’s town square Wednesday night in clear but very cold weather to bear witness to the nine lives lost to ICE agents around the country.

Art imitates life for Exeter’s John Irving

Sunday, December 28, 2025

John Irving’s breakthrough novel The World According to Garp (1978) won the National Book Award and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. Showing his versatility, he also received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Cider House Rules (2000) and a Lambda Literary Award, given to writers addressing LGBTQ+ issues, in 2013 for In One Person. A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) is the best-selling of his 16 novels.

Timely Writer: All I Want for Christmas

Thursday, December 11, 2025

After 16 seasons of working Holiday retail hell, six of which I was forced to listen to a looping disco Christmas tape, I run with all possible haste away from Black Sabbath Friday and Soul Sacrifice Cyber Monday.

Instead, I offer a more substantial but totally unattainable Holiday and New Year’s wish list:

The Soapbox: Gambling humbugs

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Simply put, New Hampshire gambling revenues are up while lottery and liquor store revenues are down. The Big Con here is the state’s willingness to trade long term gambling problems and ruined lives for short term mo’money. Desperate people do desperate things. It’s not if but when New Hampshire will be hit with a gambling scandal. Underage teens around the country are already registering to bet online with personal info “borrowed” from an uncle.

Q&A with Robert B. Perreault: Local historian pens engaging novel

Wednesday, November 5, 2025Wednesday, November 5, 2025

The setting is but a backdrop. While the storyline of the novel entertainingly grabs the reader’s interest, you can’t help but root for Victoria and Lucien, it is the humor that kept me glued to the page.

Curious George still out for adventure in the White Mountains

Thursday, October 9, 2025Thursday, October 9, 2025

The long and winding road that landed Hans and Margret Rey into a modest cottage for 20 summers in Waterville Valley starting in the 1950s, is no less enticing than the adventures of their creation, a clever and now-famous monkey named Curious George. The perennial children’s book and now media favorite first appeared in 1941, a year after the Reys fled Paris on bicycles constructed by Hans from a tandem bicycle and spare parts.

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