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It was 1965, and I was a freshman at Wesleyan. In those days, the freshmen (all men) were housed in the dormitories on Foss Hill. Twenty-two guys lived on my floor, two ...
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CASTE, AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS
The hot new book on the anti-racism scene is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Ms. Wilkerson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and National Book-Award-winning writer. I haven’t read the ...
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THE CANS
Part 1 The redeemable cans and bottles were piling up. When our son lived with us, it was his job to take them to Stop & Shop. We let him keep the ...
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THUMBS UP
I took off on my customary three-mile walk on Saturday morning. I was in shorts, a tee shirt, walking shoes and my fabulous American flag sun-hat that I picked up in an ...
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OPENING DAY
Baseball was big when I was a kid, at least in our house. Mom rooted for the Dodgers, because she liked underdogs, hated the establishment, and cheered for Jackie Robinson. I would ...
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PAUL’S STORY
My good friend and former partner, Paul McCary, reacted to some of my stories about my childhood by writing about his life as a child in New London and Waterford. Here’s what ...
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CAPE WHITE
We took a few days of vacation on Cape Cod last week. It was cloudy and cool, so we traded sitting around our house for sitting around our hotel room. Still, there ...
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Necessary Dialogue on Race: Tangible Starting Steps & Solutions for the Here and Now! By Lisa Nkonoki 6/3/20
In these heart-wrenching times, many folks are asking, “How can I help?” or “How can my family be part of the solution?” As a Black Woman, and Person of Color (POC) who ...
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Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.