Tag: Paul Smart Village Voices

Most of the self-published books that have worked their way into our library collection find their way out if no ...

Every time I take a bath, my Mysore sandalwood soap envelops me in an active memory of the few days ...

By the time Milo was seven he’d been to Lisbon, Rome, Mexico, London, and 20 plus states. He’d seen old-style ...

We pursued a variety of friendships and individual conversations: explorations of music we’d discovered, placement of books and art work ...

An uncle who became a major force in the Southern Baptist Council was always pushing baptism. I lived in the ...

What are the big shifts taking place now? We’ve seen the advent of digital everything. Now we socially distance and ...

Even in the deep Catskills, men wore jackets and tie to town-board meetings, or court. Until quite recently, t-shirts were ...

I guess there’s an element of privacy that’s long drawn folks to the Catskills. There may not be as much ...

Chapman Hotel was a bar in Schoharie County that you entered through someone’s living room. They served Genesee and kept ...

My first nine months as a library clerk pushed me to rewatch The Wire. I wanted to run diary entries ...

For years, parenting took the bite out of aging. Then my parents died. We started getting two and sometimes three AARP magazines ...

I guess I’ll also have to tell my son, who’s been fielding news of his teenager friends getting grounded for ...

I can hear my mother chiding me about not forcing my son to keep a regular bedtime. I can vaguely ...

Nowadays, we must build our own world of contacts. Unless friends share the people they know, we all live on ...

We could be looking to invest in new forms of education that incorporate armies of young people drawn into service ...

The son of my wife’s co-worker started hearing voices, facing down hallucinations. An intervention was needed to keep him safe. ...

People put their masks on when entering the snack bar or biergarten, socially distanced. They relaxed in lawn chairs until ...

Kennedy is a master at dialogue, telling descriptions of people and places. But he has also maintained a pitch-perfect amalgamation ...

Getting back to my job, I’m beginning to feel a little dead. I miss the combination of hectic chaos and ...

My friend’s questioning the validity of her many years pursuing dreams now defunct. She misses the rewards such a life ...