Tag: Paul Smart Village Voices

Like most libraries these days, ours has been weeding out less popular books and movies. Goodbye, Balzac and James Baldwin, ...

“You gotta teach your troops to understand and respect black rage, to not treat the man who can’t keep from ...

“They may own the skies but we rats down here know the streets, our alleys,” says the black man in ...

Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Newburgh have tinderboxes where gentrifying areas sit next to long-decaying neighborhoods that have been forgotten, labeled as ...

We picked the free school our son attends for its ability to assuage his tics, build his socializing skills, get ...

One time we unspooled a thousand feet of extension cord and dragged a piano up onto a small mountain in ...

I live in a city with working vegetable gardens. It’s as urban centers that no longer thrive on commerce, the ...

We got the cat we call our “little one,” CP (for Cutie Pie) when she was smaller than my palm. ...

The first time I went to a therapist’s office, I felt trapped. My partner of the time seemed to have ...

I’ve been thinking about where we could go swimming safely when the weather reaches up towards 90 degrees. Much is ...

Music’s been playing out on the street for the past three days. Instead of the hard hiphop that’s usually the ...

The cardinals came to Pope Urban XII, worried that the Vatican would have to expel the Jews from Rome. If ...

Some physical moments last beyond the times they inhabit. When I think of late afternoon sun in New York City, ...

I’ve worked with political dreamers who gained and then lost office, writers with great contracts lost to lingering resentments, men ...

A friend forwarded an article yesterday, just as I was mulling how nice it’ll be to sit down in a ...

I’d chastise my father for always trying to make his doctors like him. Don’t joke, I’d say. You want to ...

Something’s been chewing above my head in the attic. At first I thought it was our cat, trapped in a ...

Back in the long-hair days of the early 1970s, I had a recurring fear. I’d grow my hair long, like ...

In these challenged times, I’ve had the radio on all the time. I’ve been volunteering to program a community radio ...

You know how big trucks light themselves up at night? It’s an exhibitionist version of the tendency that pushes truckers ...