“I have no idea what she does for a living.” We’re sitting on her couch. It’s a couch in a living room in an apartment on America Street on the west side of Providence. The living room doesn’t have much in it aside from the couch, but there’s an Amy Winehouse poster on the wall […]
Funda Fest returns this month. For full coverage, go to motifri.com/funda2020 The schedule of events follows. Jan 20: Providence Children’s Museum: MLK Amazing Grace, 100 South St, PVD. Free! 11:30am, 1pm, 2:30pm Jan 21: Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Ave, PVD. Free! 10am. Featured storyteller: V. Raffini. Jan 25: North Kingstown Free Library, 100 Boone […]
Dear C and Dr. B; I just had an experience with my younger sister, Emma that scared the crap out of me. I don’t ever want it to happen again. First, I have to mention that Emma has been on psychiatric meds for a while. She’s switched doctors a few times and they kept switching […]
John’s Book of Revelations (written around 96 AD) is the last book of the New Testament and happens to be the birthplace of the infamous triple digits “666.” As stated in the New King James Version of the Bible (13:18): “Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it […]
“My wife used to love Bruce. All she’d play is Bruce. Let me tell you, Bruce Springsteen ever showed up at the door, I was out, boy. I was a goner.” He lives in Wayland Square within walking distance of Books on the Square and Red Stripe. Currently, he’s the father of four and the […]
When kids pull all the blankets out of the closet and the cushions off the couch to build a fort, they’re answering a developmental need buried deep in their psyches. David Sobel, the leading expert on kids and forts and author of the book Children’s Special Places: Exploring the Role of Forts, Dens, and Bush […]
“I want anyone to stumble upon Ceremony and say, ‘Oh my God, what’s this?’” says Michelle Cheng, the owner of Ceremony Café, which opened in early December in PVD. Cheng describes her new business as a “tea house reimagined,” one that blends the ancient traditions of Chinese and Japanese tea ceremonies in a modernized setting, […]
This was a year that seemed to end not with a bang, but with a long-suffering whimper, with the health of both our government and our people somewhat in limbo. It is often said that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Let’s take a moment to look back. First, despite […]
Dear Spyce, My girlfriend and I have been together for a few years now and are really into each other. I love having sex with her, but its always the same thing. We only use our fingers and our tongues. I’ve been asking her to try a dildo, even just to use one on me, […]
“I had the worst temper of anyone I’d ever met. That was before I went back to holding people. My life was really missing connection and intimacy, and allowing myself to reclaim that just cleared so much up.” For her, “holding” is exactly what it sounds like. She invites people over to her apartment — […]