“Welcome to Boston! We hope you enjoy living here!”This is how you would think the tollbooth attendant would greet you at the Allston/Brighton tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike when you first arrive in your new home city. Instead, count on a simple, “Fifty cents, please.” Just when you had been suckered into believing that the… Continue reading Living in Boston: An Expensive Experience
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Movie Review: Return to Kandahar
Return to Kandahar, currently playing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is a documentary of a former refugee who fled Afghanistan in 1989 at the age of 13 and returns in 2002 to find her childhood friend. In what must be a cinematic first, this film is art documenting life imitating art imitating life. You… Continue reading Movie Review: Return to Kandahar
The Lagniappe: Lessons Learned
In late August of this year I was back in Minnesota, and over coffee with a close friend I confided that the first year out of college had been the absolute worst of my life. (Full disclosure: I’ve had a fairly wonderful time thus far, so that was a relative declaration.) It had nothing to… Continue reading The Lagniappe: Lessons Learned
How to Achieve Fiction-Writing Fame
Being a member of the fiction-writing elite is only seven simple steps away. Unlike those other become-a-famous-writer plans out there, such as the often exorbitantly priced MFA writing program option, this plan really works: Step 1: Quickly dash off a short story in which a silly teen has problems finding a complementary lover. Do not… Continue reading How to Achieve Fiction-Writing Fame
Dufrense Piece is Welcomed New Addition to Art Collection
Me Lighting Lauren Bacall’s Cigarette in “Written on the Wind”Angela Dufrense2004Oil on canvas63 by 60 inches Last week I found myself sitting in one of the project rooms at Spangler around dusk. The sun had just set and the sky was this amazing blue color that was both dark and bright at the same time.… Continue reading Dufrense Piece is Welcomed New Addition to Art Collection