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Celeste Ng | Knowledge & Wisdom

Credit: Kevin Day Photography  “You should be able to count on the goodwill and generosity of others to survive … and by ‘others’ I mean our society and our society safety net. ‘Others’ is all of us.” —Celeste Ng (born July 30, 1980). Exploring ideas of race, class, and family, this Cambridge, Massachusetts, author first […]

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Life in the Kingdom | Time Alone

With family away, life during a cold snap is distilled to the pleasure of chores, the warmth of cats, and a ski trek across the land.

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December Babies | Mary’s Farm

Those of us born in December often arrive late, or so say the old wives, who claim that these fiery infants aren’t anxious to come forth into the cold world. I was apparently not interested in that cold entry, as I was born on December 10 rather than November 14, the day my mother expected […]

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The New England Opioid Epidemic | Port in a Storm

Nowhere in America has the opioid epidemic been so deadly as New England. From the beginning, Gloucester, Massachusetts, has been on the front lines of a war seemingly without end.

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Seth Myers | Knowledge & Wisdom

  “My mother has laughed at everything my dad has said for the last 40 years. My brother and I both learned that if you can make a beautiful woman laugh, you can do way better than you should be doing.” —Seth Meyers (born December 28, 1973). Raised in Bedford, New Hampshire, the Late Night host […]

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