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When I tuned into the energy of this month and began pulling cards, I started to feel a playful lightness swirling around my chest, throat, and third eye. There’s a heavy anchoring that tends to happen in winter, a grounding that can be both nourishing and hard as we ready ourselves to survive another dark […]
I married my first two boyfriends. Not at the same time. I grew up believing in the all consuming power of love. I believed that there were soulmates for everyone. Afterall, Disney never lies right? My bitter jaded adult brain has lost the glow and sparkle of young love. Love is a complicated and fickle […]
Leo hated taking flag down fares; it was the sheer unpredictability of how the ride could turn out that made him anxious. This was not New York, where a partition separated driver from customer. This was PVD, where because of simple proximity, a fare was privy to your world, and vice versa, for however long […]
We all have narcissists in our lives, whether in our family, friendships, workplaces, or our beds. One in every six persons around the world has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), and that number is growing. We think of narcissists as people who love their reflection (actually self-loathing), but it is so much more disruptive than that. […]
It’s February; love is in the air! A dreary month caught in the middle of the winter hangover leftover from December’s holiday excitement, broken up by the lover’s excitement and extravagant experiences, chocolates, flowers and those obnoxious large teddy bears that somehow last until the end of time. One thing people don’t usually think about […]
For Rhode Island sports fans, losing the Pawtucket Red Sox left a bit of a sting; but it was quickly replaced by the anticipation of a locally based professional soccer team. They would join the USL Championship league (a notch below Major League Soccer). Some people didn’t think soccer would succeed in RI, especially with […]
Could life on planet Earth get any worse? That was the zinger that immediately popped into this reporter’s mind, as I thought about a permanently altered landscape buried in every conceivable piece of crap one might imagine. Yes, I am referring to the place we call home…..Earth. Humans just can’t get enough of their consumptive […]
Although it may seem counterintuitive, some of the most poignant examples of Black history lay in our youth and their efforts to honor the spaces pioneered by their mentors and ancestors. As young as they may be, their fight is centuries old and should hold equal weight. In the spirit of commemorating Black history, join […]
Black History Month: The Making of Memory and Remembering I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a story of things. Not things really but people; a story of people told through things, which is how we often do tell the story of people. The things we collect; the thingswe discard; the things we covet; […]
The year is 1938. The city of Providence is swept under the waves in the flood of the Great New England Hurricane. Houses are destroyed, cars and people lost in waters of destruction. Thankfully the storm, for a moment, provides a brief respite, in which people are able to escape to higher ground. These lucky […]