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Dear Friend, Thank you for braving the unseasonably cold temperatures, black ice, and wind advisory to deliver chocolate, edamame, and your smiling self to my door. Sixteen hours of rain followed [...]

The word “community” comes from Old French comunete or, “reinforced by its source.” An Old English word for community was gemænscipe, meaning “fellowship, union, common ownership.” [...]

Dear Andrew Bird fans, Here is proof that I am not the only person profoundly obsessed with the musical evolution of Mr. Bird. While this article is nicely done, I will say it blurs over too many [...]

The year after graduation from Whitman College, I joined two AmeriCorps service crews. I spent my summer removing exotic invasive plants from a globally significant wetland in the Berkshire [...]

[I am doing a meditation retreat through Sunday evening.]

[Continued from yesterday] and the only thing I felt certain of now was that I didn’t know what was coming next. What came next, of course, were contact drills. But rather than full-on kumite, [...]

[Continued from yesterday] Now who knew what the next hour would bring… It didn’t bring stretching, studying, or snacking—that’s for sure. We moved right into review of all the one-steps I know [...]

When you assume, you make an a-s-s out of u and m-e. That was the slogan I learned sophomore year of high school in Driver’s Ed class. It’s also the slogan that rang in my ears as I left the dojo [...]

Nature never ceases to remind me who has the final say. After six days away from home, I loaded up my dad’s truck with empty boxes, my Thanksgiving luggage, groceries, and my computer. Not [...]

There is so much to be thankful for. We say it all the time and we mean it, we really do. As I spent a leisurely four days with my family, safe and sound and stuffed full of this year’s [...]