My Drifter Doppelganger
It was Thursday night, but looming ahead was Saturday and another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops and convivial conversation with the husbands, I’d say something that embarrasses my wife in […]
It was Thursday night, but looming ahead was Saturday and another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops and convivial conversation with the husbands, I’d say something that embarrasses my wife in […]
CONCORD, Mass. Ethel Farley has been a teacher in the schools here for over two decades, long enough to be able to spot a young girl with a broken heart halfway across a crowded lunch […]
BOSTON. Maeve Bluestone is the gateway that all who would enter the inner sanctum of Michael Aramik, her long-time boss, must pass through. “He can be a very genial man,” she says as she checks […]
ARDMORE, Pennsylvania. Kyle Orthnutt is to all appearances a typical twelve-year-old boy, but instead of oiling up his mitt as Little League season approaches, he’s staring off into the distance, his mind on something other […]
NEEDHAM, Mass. Cindi Swarthmore is a young mother of two who maintains the slim, girlish figure of her college days by an assiduous devotion to exercise. “Sunday is spinning, Monday is cardio kick-boxing, Tuesday is […]
Lately, a lot of people want to know my name. The “barista” at Starbucks. The guy behind the counter at Peet’s Coffee. “Can I have a name for that order?” he asks. I look around […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Eli Tucker is a twenty-eight year old man with above-average looks and a good job, but his self-esteem barely registers on the Kinsdorph-Eisenstat Personality Index. “Eli bears the scars of an abusive relationship,” says […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A newly-released study is lending stature to a group of artists long dismissed as either inscrutable or merely annoying: mimes, who according to a white paper funded by the International Brother-and-Sisterhood of Mimes, contribute […]
Dear Ones– The dreaded “coronavirus” has put the crimp in dating, mating and plain old canoodling around, leaving Consuela concerned for the future of advice to the lovelorn columns such as hers. “Love in the […]
SMYRNA, Delaware. This town of 10,000 straddles two counties, Kent and New Castle, but in politics there is no dividing line. “Just about everybody here voted for Joe Biden,” says Lem Goodman, whose family has […]