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For the past 25 years, I have been writing about the people, places and subjects that interest me, for The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Magazine, Commonwealth Magazine and other publications, including Budget Travel and Yankee magazines.

Community Development and Public Issues / People and Their Passions / Travel and Places I love / Funny Business and Doggerel

   Community development and public issues

• My CommonWealth Magazine column, Dispatches, Summer 2007
• Second Act: Can the arts save Pittsfield?
  Once an industrial powerhouse, this Berkshire County is turning to the creative economy to spark a revival. Will it work?
• An American tragedy
  The city of Springfield, Mass., is digging out from decades of public corruption and mismanagement that has brought it to the brink of bankruptcy. It's going to be a long haul 
• Margaret Blood's never-ending campaign
  The Massachusetts legislature has approved universal pre-school, but the real work is just beginning. Just ask advocate Margaret Blood.
• Not-so-green-acres
  Franklin County, Massachusetts, is at once pre-industrial and post-industrial. What are its prospects for the future?

   People and their passions

• Williams College astronomer Jay Pasachoff looks to Pluto.
• BerkshireCounty sculptor Joe Wheaton builds a cheapie kitchen.
• Author Anita Shreve writes about what she knows.

   Travel and places I love

• Cape Cod Love Letter
  Why do we keep returning to the same vacation spot year after year? An edited version of this appeared in Yankee Magazine, July-August 2007
• Thoreau was here: An essay on Massachusetts' highest mountain
• Beachcoming on the Thames: A backdoor into London's history
• A cheapskate in London: Renting your own short-stay apartment
• High Desert to Hollywood Roadtrip: Four women, two generations, six days

   Funny business and doggerel

• Sugar Time
• Ode to a spiral Smithfield, or, Who will rid me of this ham?

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