Depression, Anthony Bourdain, and pushing, pushing, pushing our way toward the light

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Tuesday, June 12, 2018

I ignored both posts, not because I’m a total heathen, but because depression scares the shit out of me. I don’t want to talk about it, recognize it, feel the heat coming off the disease, because it seems that once “it” gets under one’s skin, well, you either try to burn it out with pills or tighten the belt all on your own.

Let’s make McAllaster great again (and use it as a community theater!)

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Saturday, June 9, 2018

Imagine if students from all four of our high schools could come together for a district-wide theater arts collaborative, making McAllaster home base, and staging one major production each school year pooling talent from all four schools, including technical support from MST students?

Healthcare is Vital

Monday, January 20, 2025Thursday, June 7, 2018

Our state seized the opportunities offered through federal healthcare reforms to make a difference for local residents.

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow seeks new adoring fans, find them at the Currier Friday night

Monday, January 20, 2025Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Currier Museum Side Door Series, which has launched very strong since the series began last year, selling out, I think, every show, is a great place to mix it up for a night and hear good music. The venue is intimate with great acoustics. Couple hundred seats and drinks, if needed, at the ready. A perfect fit for the Queen City.

Manchester’s birthday party: We had our cake but couldn’t eat it

Monday, January 20, 2025Tuesday, June 5, 2018

It’s hard to create positive change when our leaders fear it. How does Manchester solve its real problems when having a birthday celebration can’t even go on without restraints?

By the Light of Burning Tires I Watched My Life Go By

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, June 3, 2018

As I write this, it was a week ago that I spent my last night in Pittsburg, five miles from the Canadian border, alone outside the Tiny White Box. Wanting to mark the occasion, I built a small campfire in a fire pit as the sun was going down. There, I meditated on what I’ve lived in the last nine months, reviewed the writing I’ve done (and left undone) and thought about the next stage of my journey.

‘Cabin in the Sky’ a groundbreaking classic film that delivers star power, timeless music, laughs

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, June 3, 2018

As an all-black musical production during a time where black performances where scripted to be cut out of movies in order to be shown to white Southern audiences (in fact Cabin In The Sky was banned in Memphis) it was a massive gamble for director Vincente Minnelli,

Challenging the war economy

Monday, January 20, 2025Friday, June 1, 2018

Fifty-one years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

Firefighters are subject to work-related cancers: What can be done?

Monday, January 20, 2025Wednesday, May 30, 2018

During hearings for a bill in the New Hampshire legislature, Christine Jameson from Hampton gave heartbreaking testimony. She recounted that her 33-year-old firefighter husband Kyle died from what doctors say is a work-related cancer, T-Cell prolymphocytic leukemia. He also left behind a 2½-year-old child.

A Melancholy Goodbye Followed by an Enthusiastic “Hey There, World!”

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Sunday, May 27, 2018

Although my first novel began “I never intended this, of course,” when I came to Pittsburg in mid-August, I intended to stay for a year or so. I intended to finish another novel. I intended to write a memoir. I intended to learn some things about myself…I had a lot of intentions.