Safe Station 2.0: ‘What we started with and what we have now is like night and day.’

Sunday, January 19, 2025Sunday, February 4, 2018

When Safe Station started, it was an experimental idea. EMS Officer Chris Hickey offered it up as a way to reduce the number of overdose deaths and AMR calls; invite people ready for change to walk in a door, hopefully, in a moment of clarity, instead of the city responding to a drug overdose, too often, too late to save a life.

VA Medical Care: The worst thing you know about a man isn’t necessarily the truest

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, February 4, 2018

Mother Theresa may have been short-tempered and cranky with her underlings – that doesn’t take away from the good work she did. Contrariwise, Bill Cosby was an incredibly funny role model for Americans – until it came out he was a chemically-enabled rapist. Anecdotes are just pieces of information, and they don’t compose an argument by themselves.

Positive parenting and the brain: Your words and actions actually change your child’s brain!

Sunday, January 19, 2025Wednesday, January 31, 2018

You’re never going to look back and say to yourself, “I wish I hadn’t been so kind to my children!” Instead, when you’re older, and your children have left to carry on their own lives, you can sit back and smile, knowing that you’ve shown them the way to be the kind of person you admire.

Why children’s savings accounts should be America’s next wealth transfer program

Sunday, January 19, 2025Monday, January 29, 2018

Growing concern about the high cost of college has led to demands for free college. However, “free college” – a concept that gained a modest amount of traction in the 2016 elections – ignores the roots of inequity. Inequality does not start when the tuition bill arrives, nor does it end after it is paid. Instead, financial aid would be better used to influence children’s early education, college completion and post-college financial health.

Letters: Income tax bill disguised as insurance bill is bad for NH

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, January 28, 2018

This is an awful bill. It is deceptive, it will lead to a full-fledged mandatory income tax, it will repel workers from the state, and it will damage New Hampshire’s economic future. I urge all of New Hampshire’s residents to call their representatives and tell them to kill HB 628.

Telegenics Alert — I Need a TV Makeover. STAT!

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, January 28, 2018

Monday, the Tiny White Box will host a visitor, Sean McDonald from Channel 9 News in Manchester. Sean hosts the morning news and a TV magazine show called “Chronicle.” For the latter, he and a crew are driving to the Tiny White Box, likely for a segment to be called “Eccentrics of the North Woods — And Why They Should be Kept There.”

Saucerful of Secrets and a Sidewalk Symphony of Smells (and a postscript)

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, January 25, 2018

Much has happened during this time I’ve been down, some of which I’ll be able to share with the world shortly. One thing is that I’ve had meals with six (6) (VI) of the 14 folks I named on New Year’s Day as people I wanted to reconnect with. The resolution continues.

Tiny White Box receives a huge gift

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, January 21, 2018

I discovered a serious blow to my solitary life, a slap to my hermitic face, a forced attack on my writer’s retreat. Some bastard left a bushel of progress at the Tiny White Box, and I didn’t have the opportunity to refuse to sign for it. Let me explain.