Category: Fiction

Hair likely played a significant role in evolution by protecting the first modern humans and their developing brains from the blazing sun. The Wall Street Journal The sun was high in the sky and so […]

SOMERVILLE, Mass.  When this suburb of Boston decided to become a “sister city” with Pamplona, Spain a decade ago, few realized what it would mean for the many cat-owners who live here. El gato de […]

It was a steamy Washington summer four decades ago. I was working for the federal government at a scandal-plagued agency alongside a veteran bureaucrat named Fred. Fred wasn’t going any higher on the org chart, […]

Thomas De Quincey’s elder brother William succeeded in some attempts at bringing down cats by parachutes.                                               The Life of Thomas De Quincy, Malcolm Elwin As I looked around the hold of the Puss in Boots, […]

I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m feeling the relationship “blahs” I turn to Cosmopolitan, the “lifestylist for millions of fun, fearless females.”  That’s where you’ll find articles like “The Secret Happy Couples Know,” […]

One of the reasons I moved to Massachusetts so long ago–has it really been fifty-two years?–was because my mom instilled a love of American history in me, and New England’s got history like Heinz has […]