A few months ago, I wrote an article in this space about the subject of “period poverty” and our desire at United Way to take aim at this problem locally. Today I will give you an exciting update! But for starters, let us do a quick refresher on what “period poverty” is, why it is ...

“When White folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” We’ve known this old adage for years but never before did it strike so close to home as it did last month when COVID finally caught up with our interracial family. First, a little background. Since the global pandemic began in ...

At the invitation of Monadnock Family Services, writer David Blistein, Co-Director Erik Ewers, and Producer Julie Coffman showed a 30 minute preview of the four hour film they call “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness” in Keene a few days ago. Interesting as the filmmakers were to ...

We’re mad as hell, paying five stinking bucks-a-gallon for regular gas. And that’s just the tip of the “heist-berg.” As in, we are being robbed every time we reach for our wallets. As a result, the term “extreme couponing” has returned to daily conversation. According to a new ...

This ... will be the mightiest day in the history of our lives, the holiest, & the most generous toward us both -- for it makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, & doubles the strength of each whereby to perform it; it gives to two questioning ...

In the cloying humidity and purple shadows of twilight on August 8, 1974, massive crowds gathered across from the White House waiting to learn the fate of Richard Nixon, America’s 37th President. They, along with the rest of the world, didn’t have long to wait. Just twenty four hours later, ...