“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel Courage is what life is all about, right? Without courage – to be yourself, to say what you believe, to find your path, to go ...
We often say at United Way that “Great things happen when we LIVE UNITED.” This month, I wanted to give a few examples of what that really means and why, for our community, it is an important concept. This past month, we hosted our third annual “United We Sleep to end Hunger and ...
Today, it feels like we can’t go anywhere without hearing someone talk about politics. Movies and late-night TV shows have discovered that political humor draws viewers in droves. Boycotts against products and companies that support the “wrong” political party have become commonplace. ...
Sometimes when I hear or read about a public library’s “Friends of” group, I wonder, is there really anyone out there who would call themselves an “enemy of” the library? Well, there is one case I can think of that’s kind of in the ball park, but I won’t go as far as to label ...
Last weekend, my family joined hundreds of thousands of others in celebrating New Hampshire’s natural splendor in the White Mountain National Forest. As we took in the fall foliage from the Cog Railway on Mt. Washington and hiked along the Pemigewasset River, it was impossible to imagine that ...
Leave it to a Massachusetts gridiron rival, I said to myself as I perused several Nashua Telegraph stories, published 60 years ago this month, regarding a rather silly controversy that erupted in the weeks after the legendary Nashua High-Lowell High football game ended in an anticlimactic 14-14 ...
