Power couple deserves narrative
A piece in the Sunday New York Times, “Everywhere at Once” (print: March 18, 2012), caught my attention. Reporter Bob Morris did…
It began with a Kaypro and spiral-bound notebooks
I think about writing and about how I should quit procrastinating. But I also think about how I’ve done it. I’ve had…
A Granite Chain – pt. 3
Back at the other end of the stream, the start of our hike had been marked by a…
A Granite Chain – pt. 2
Bob Boynton pointed on the topographic map to a minor mystery. It was a low, rounded hill about…
A Granite Chain: Stories of everyday people – Part 1
I am, I have decided, a country mouse. I regard highways as an abomination – cars were meant…
Drug Courts – pt. 3
In Nashua’s juvenile drug court, a few weeks after Vaughan welcomed White into his drug court, Judge Thomas…
Drug Courts – part 1
Prosecutor Lara Saffo begins telling the judge what police found when they searched Jim White’s room. “Marijuana, a…
Drug Courts – pt. 2
White was joining 17 others in a two-year-long program aimed at making these drug convictions his last ones. …
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Power couple deserves narrative
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Wild mushrooms in late summer
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Vegetables
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Damned in the digital world – my plan for saving newspapers
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A Granite Chain: Stories of everyday people – Part 1
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On the farm: daylilies
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Drug Courts – part 1
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Drug Courts – pt. 2
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The idea of narrative shows up in interesting places
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Why narrative?
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Selling with story
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Is story the next big thing?
Losing the queen
A crisis in early spring. …
Orwell, if you can find him
You can read Orwell's "Why I Write" from beginning to end and not find . .…
Shall we throw them to wild beasts?
How hard is it for students these days to comprehend complex sentences?…
