Andrew Bouldin announces candidacy for State Representative
read more…: Andrew Bouldin announces candidacy for State RepresentativeNow accepting candidate announcements from those running for elected office.
Point of View
Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
Your core negative beliefs are a lie
read more…: Your core negative beliefs are a lieThe practice of mindfulness is an attempt to identify the core negative beliefs that each of us holds, and then to reject them and challenge them. You are not the person those beliefs say you are. You are more than what you were told, or what you heard. It is time to “put away childish things.” How liberating!
A Thousand Words about Seven Pictures
read more…: A Thousand Words about Seven PicturesObligatory Promotional Paragraph: The segment on the Tiny White Box is scheduled to air Tuesday, February 13, at 7 p.m. on WMUR Channel 9, Manchester. While I’m having dinner with a friend in Manchester at 5 or so that evening, I have not decided where or whether to watch the show. If you’d like me to attend your Chronicle Watch Party, please contact my management agency.
Concord country crooner Will Hatch runs hot and smooth with new release, ‘For You’
read more…: Concord country crooner Will Hatch runs hot and smooth with new release, ‘For You’He is a multi-instrumentalist, a one-man band, a heavy duty lyricist, with a certain stage presence about him that if you look hard enough you can see ghosts of all eras coming through in his performances.
Natural Medicine for Flu: Prevention and Healing
read more…: Natural Medicine for Flu: Prevention and HealingIf you’ve already got it, don’t despair. Even if you’re an iron man, or a fitness/wellness guru, eventually your number is up. This is your excuse to stay home, snooze, sip tea and brothy soups, and binge watch episodes of Golden Girls…unless you’re a parent of young children. In that case, it’s just business as usual! Regardless, you want to get through this quickly and here are some tips to get you back in your groove.
Paid Family Leave: Preventative Insurance for New Hampshire Workers
read more…: Paid Family Leave: Preventative Insurance for New Hampshire Workersstruggled with my own battle with addiction and was too afraid to ask for help in fear of getting fired and loosing my insurance. I kept my battles to myself and progressively got worse. I ended up losing my job due to my alcoholism. I was then without a job, insurance, and without a clue on how to seek support.
Senate Committee set to ban wine shipments to NH
read more…: Senate Committee set to ban wine shipments to NHThe most remarkable thing about this bill is that it is trying to fix a problem that does not exist. New Hampshire residents don’t purchase wines from out-of-state sources and pay the heaving shipping costs if they can find what they want locally.
Just another routine Thursday for New Hampshire ratepayers
read more…: Just another routine Thursday for New Hampshire ratepayersNorthern Pass, if built, would be a giant extension cord. Its purpose is to deliver 1090 megawatts of hydroelectric power generated in faraway parts of Quebec to consumers in Massachusetts.
When Do We Wake Up?
read more…: When Do We Wake Up?When a child is lost, a part of your life goes away and you never get over the deep feeling of sadness. Why does this happen in the greatest country in the world? What has caused this to happen? I don’t have a simple answer, but I ask our society to think about this every day.
Safe Station 2.0: ‘What we started with and what we have now is like night and day.’
read more…: Safe Station 2.0: ‘What we started with and what we have now is like night and day.’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
read more…: VA Medical Care: The worst thing you know about a man isn’t necessarily the truestMother 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!
read more…: Positive parenting and the brain: Your words and actions actually change your child’s brain!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
read more…: Why children’s savings accounts should be America’s next wealth transfer programGrowing 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
read more…: Letters: Income tax bill disguised as insurance bill is bad for NHThis 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!
read more…: Telegenics Alert — I Need a TV Makeover. STAT!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)
read more…: Saucerful of Secrets and a Sidewalk Symphony of Smells (and a postscript)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
read more…: Tiny White Box receives a huge giftI 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.
Act of God or municipal malfunction? Jan. 7 water main break leaves family carless
read more…: Act of God or municipal malfunction? Jan. 7 water main break leaves family carlessI’m no legal expert. But when I hear “act of God,” I think about hurricanes and tornadoes, Noah-level floods, plagues of frogs, stuff like that. Especially here in New Hampshire, snow and cold temperatures don’t strike me as an act of God. More like the cold hard latitude and longitude of living in the northeast. We prepare for it. We allow for it when it comes to things like buying a year’s worth of road salt, or setting aside enough money to pay plow drivers overtime during a snow storm.
Don’t be fooled by Walmart’s promotional stunt about increasing wages
read more…: Don’t be fooled by Walmart’s promotional stunt about increasing wagesThis week the nations largest employer made national news by announcing they would raise their minimum wage to $11 an hour and provide a $1,000 bonus to 1.5 million American employees. A closer review of this announcement shows that it is all a publicity stunt.