Posts by Keith Spiro
Whether it’s forced closure or currently vacant space, retail is in a tailspin. Overnight the world has learned about live streaming and interactive video chats, yet when the current world health crisis ends, humans will crave real life experiences. How will retail and landlords maximize the new appreciation for physical connection?
Today’s announcement by CEO & President Paul Le Blanc showed that “reimagining campus based learning” had long been in the works and the crisis at hand presented the opportunity to speed up the planned transition. The University has long been a leader in online education with more than 130,000 learners worldwide participating in over 300 accredited undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs.
Mr. O and I have worked together before but never like this. I enjoyed Lego club with our family’s second-grader but when remote learning started, I found myself pressed into service as a para-professional by my recently-returned from-retirement teacher/wife. Seemingly overnight, we transformed our favorite living space into a one-room-schoolhouse to accommodate the kindergartener, second- and fourth-graders ensconced there.
“These are unprecedented times. Many non-profit organizations in New Hampshire are significantly impacted” says NH filmmaker Ken Burns in a short video for NH Humanities. In the balance is the continuation of important work or closing their doors permanently.
Staff and residents are doing some amazing things like channeling their energy into creating masks for medical professionals and thank you cards for essential hospital staff. They’ve adopted a Choose Love program and have also seen love returned to them via donations used for special treats – and pizzas ordered and delivered to them
Staff and residents are doing some amazing things like channeling their energy into creating masks for medical professionals and thank you cards for essential hospital staff. They’ve adopted a Choose Love program and have also seen love returned to them via donations used for special treats – and pizzas ordered and delivered to them
The need is great for everyday things like individually-wrapped hard candies, mints, gum, bottled water, chocolate, pre-packaged snacks and hair ties, headbands, non-scented hand lotion and Chapstick. Yes, Chapstick!
Welcome to Keith Spiro’s Communicast, a community broadcast highlighting the good things that people in our community are doing. With support from Manchester Ink Link, I will be showcasing the leadership roles people are taking. Particularly in these very strange times, it will be nice to have some positive things to look at and know how people around us are helping each other.
I first met Tomie dePaola, the way I imagine most people did, through his illustrations and books. Strega Nona and Big Anthony came to life for my kids and more recently for my grand-kids. The kindly every-person’s Italian grandma. Loving and feisty with an always-full-magic pot of pasta. Of course, she had to save her small town from being overrun by pasta when Big Anthony did what any little child could imagine doing — misusing the witch’s magic and getting into trouble.
Manchester had a carnival atmosphere last night but in a good way. The entire spectrum of political America was in town. From our sitting President at SNHU Arena to Tulsi Gabbard at the Rex Theatre, you could weave your way along all of Elm Street and find the city full of life. The streets were well-lit, densely populated and the restaurants all looked busy.
Last-chance review of ‘The Pianomen’ closing Sunday at The Palace.
At a time when shrillness and discord seem to dominate politics, Manchester came together to welcome its first female mayor Joyce Craig to a second term in office yesterday.
November was a horrendous month for me. My mom died suddenly on Veteran’s Day – 89 years old with Alzheimer’s but otherwise stable health. Expected eventually but a numbing shock all the same. My dad followed three days later, some random point in his long, slow, steady decline. The three days between their deaths and my knowledge that neither knew anything about the other’s last days has been eerie and almost mystical.
