Tag: Paul Smart Village Voices

“Is everything okay?” came the next day’s email. “President Trump asked if you were available to meet him at an ...

Ours are modern stories that are not all that unusual. Love has few bounds. Marriage and childrearing carry what are ...

Fireworks have swamped Albany, and have been popping off nightly since the first protest march’s accompanying riot several weeks back. ...

The painter gained fame for his images of men and women in the sun-dappled breeze of the Jersey shore, playing ...

We’ll have cheeseburgers, chips, a wheelbarrow full of iced teas and soda on ice. Watermelon and ice-cream cake. We strung ...

I want to see whether we all look different. Has fear entered our eyes, the way we hold our mouths? ...

I remember reacting to his death the way I’d react to the scares in a Hitchcock film. You’d know what ...

These are what I remember as local news as we started entering the digital age in the Catskills a few ...

We are headed west to a hotel and restaurant on Lake Ontario, far from anyone else. The place started as ...

She wore a black dress, buttoned high at the collar, that had a late Victorian cut to it. Her hair, ...

It all came to a head very recently when she asked that he not come on the long-planned week-long holiday ...

Silence is the worst response, on a strictly personal basis. We learn this before we can roll over on our ...

I had a series of moments in therapy when I discovered, in waves, the behaviors and attitudes passed on to ...

The massive 351-foot obelisk to the president of the Confederate States of America is the tallest concrete cast structure ever ...

The removal of things, treasured or just there for years, results in stages of grief. There’s remorse, anger, shame, anxiety, ...

Ginsberg could be a messy poet, but like his predecessor Walt Whitman he always wrote and spoke from the heart, ...

Lockdown was officially lifting. The George Floyd protests across the country had gained enough steam to overcome their initial sullying ...

Revelation means unveiling. Its incendiary account of seven seals, beasts, false gods, boiling seas of blood and mass destruction, with ...

My entire family laughs at the way I can imagine living anywhere. Suburbs of Omaha? Been there in my mind. ...

Lockdown’s ending, and already I miss it. The protest crowds, both televised and experienced in person, have left me with ...