Cancer, to my great regret, is the topic of the week for me. On Monday, a dear friend called and breezily inquired about my well-being. ...

The latest data from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's national patient registry: If you divide 13 by 1303, the answer is 0.00997698 at...

Three images of their 1993 Latapie House in Floirac, France. Looks cool but also unpretentious! From 2015 forward, this prestigious...

I'm asking nicely: Please leave our food co-ops alone. That's my reaction to the story I just read in the Keene Sentinel, and to this...

Twenty-five years ago, I relocated from Portland, Maine to Sharon, Vermont. And one of the first things I noticed upon arrival in the...

Boy is this one going to get me in trouble. I am a 62-year-old vaccine freak. By that I mean: If the FDA approves a vaccine, I want it. ...

This is the latest data from the CF Foundation's national patient registry: As you can see, deaths have increased significantly over the...

Of all the unusual places I've ever been -- everything from a tin mine in Siberia to a spent nuclear fuel pool in Maine -- none is more...

Transparency is one of my obsessions, and as a CF dad I've long been proud of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for its national patient...

When people ask me what I think about retail competition in the electric industry, in light of New Hampshire's decision in 1996 to end...

Once upon a time -- i.e., before there were iPhones and an omnipresent internet -- I had a fabulous gig. I was working as a staff writer...

Here's the thing about me as an architecture enthusiast and occasional critic: I have no taste. Specifically, I have no training of...

At the risk of repeating myself in tiresome fashion: If any woman in medical history is entitled to posthumous recognition by the New...

If there's one thing I can't stand, as a Cystic Fibrosis dad, it's people who exploit their connection to CF for ignoble purposes. Hello...

One strolled down Seventh Avenue in New York City between 31st and 33rd Streets like a god, and soon one will scuttle down that urban...

The management team at the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society noticed my post from yesterday, highlighting the fact that unaudited...

My last blog post took up one of my favorite subjects -- the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, the Upper Valley's customer-owned and...

I'm sticking with the sentiment that has been attributed, perhaps apocryphally, to Emeritus Professor Clyde Stickney of the Dartmouth...

The inaugural poem, recited at the Capitol on January 20, 2021 by poet Amanda Gorman When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their their appointed rounds." These...