Just Keep Swimming
The holidays can be a challenging time on a good year, and this year could push many to the breaking point. In recognition of the distress many are under, we’ve […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Thoughts on the Strangest Year
The class of 2020 will have war stories to tell of pandemic virtual proms, drive-by graduations, remote freshman years of college. They will feel like a tribe when they meet. […]
Enough with the Stuff!: Give the gift of pandemic-safe adventure
Holiday shopping can be a strain even under the best of non-2020 circumstances. It’s a whole new challenge when you’re the type of gift giver who would rather buy your […]
In Providence: The Christmas Cat
If you bring up the cat, you’re likely to start a war. “I’m telling you right now, that cat is not going in the photo.” For years, the matriarch of […]
Leading the Way: Nibbles eschews his big red nose for the first time in nearly three decades
When most of the country thinks about holiday traditions, they think about Christmas trees, snow, time with loved ones, Santa Claus, that kind of thing. Here in Rhode Island, we […]
Gratitude: A Thanksgiving reflection
The pilgrims invited their Indigenous friends for that first Thanksgiving feast because they were grateful for the help growing enough of a fall harvest that they could stay alive in […]
In Providence: Home again
If you take the train home to Rhode Island from New York the day before Thanksgiving, you might feel that energy of migration. The motion of thousands of other people […]
In Providence: Say it like you mean it
They met at the Hotel Providence. “We didn’t meet there. We agreed to meet up there. He was visiting from Chicago for a wedding and we matched on Tinder. He […]
In Providence: Dolores
They were eating dinner at Dolores and talking about where they would move if Biden lost the election. “The baby was coming the following month, and we didn’t know what […]
In Providence: A Lady Never Tells
If you ask her how she used to spend her Sundays, she would tell you about Cellar Stories. “This isn’t going to be you writing about how many books I […]