Tag: Paul Smart Village Voices

A dinner date was arranged at La Coupole, the grand old Montparnasse brasserie. Enter all the Rolling Stones minus Bill ...

I’ve not been exercising as I should. I blame the complex web of deadlines I tend to build around me, ...

The Tulsa setting resonates even more now that the show’s unleashed a reprisal of that dark moment in our history. ...

The week before politics pushed Covid to the side, another of our kid’s friends created a minor contretemps when he ...

“We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve ...

In the library, patrons take out the maximum number of DVDs they're allowed, ten per day. They gravitate towards genres ...

Once, play was play, and work a distant goal. College had changed that for me for good, allowing for play ...

I went to several camps as a kid. My best, an artsy socialist work camp in Vermont, opened my eyes ...

A former gang member, Jerome, said guns are easy to get. You don’t need money if your attitude aligns with ...

“White friends, has it ever taken you an hour to get written a ticket? White friends, have you ever had ...

A couple of months ago I figured out that I could brighten up my listeners’ mornings by pulling music from ...

It used to be that the more you got paid, the heavier the cuts and requested changes. I once went ...

My friends the Estonians told me about a large island off the mainland with major drinking problems among the male ...

I open the book and suddenly remember there was one last thing I had to look at on the phone. ...

I’m speaking with friends down by the great bay, a breeze cooling the 96-degree heat. There are yachts tooling around. ...

Strange inconveniences pop up. Those mini-parks, churchyards, and green spaces that corporations were once forced to open for the public ...

Ginsberg said I didn’t need the MFA and its financial burdens. Kinnell said I could audit his classes and keep ...

Sometimes run into someone who has read every word and sees you as a friend. Or blesses you with a ...

Socrates described tickling as being more pain than pleasure. Being the eldest child, I tickled my brother. We both tickled ...

We called the cleaning ladies who looked after our house several days a week when I was growing up, babysitting ...