A couple of weeks ago Babs and I went with our friend Linda to the last day of an exhibit at the Currier.  From the museum's website: the show was "first museum exhibition devoted entirely to art featuring the Mount Washington region. The exhibition features major pain...

Some of you may know that I am a faculty mentor at Lesley University's Low Residency Program in Creative Writing.  For ten days the students and faculty mentors are engaged in seminars, workshops, panel discussions, readings -- the whole nine yards. Before this exhaust...

I love a book that makes me laugh out loud -- and I don't mean the now meaningless LOL, which seems to me the blah equivalent of "Yeah, funny." I mean a book that causes me to bust out in a big, fat, bellowing guffaw .

I also love me some pirates. Even better when...

It's that Monday again. Of the every other kind, I mean, the one when I am supposed to post. But because this interview appeared online today,  and because I don't want to clog the arteries of the cybercorps with Me Cholesterol, I'll let the interview serve as a substi...