Tag: Paul Smart Village Voices

I lived in imaginary worlds I was when young. The eldest of three, I found the world of little figures ...

It seems like the USPS gets faced with a partisan onslaught every decade. Privatize, come the calls. Get rid of ...

A holiday spent with a teenager is different. So is a holiday with a sick cat.

I once worked with a woman who was extremely germaphobic. She wore throwaway gloves most of the time, and practically ...

Sounds reverberate in different ways at night. The water clicks on for the radiators, a boiler fires up, the cats ...

“It’s gonna be coming back with the fall leaves and hit harder ’round Halloween. Why’d them Chinese make this when ...

Federico liked the excitement of Milan, but made sure to take the train home to Florence, which he loved, every ...

There’s something competitive hidden within me. It surfaces when I least expect it, jumping in to claim moral superiority, say, ...

I remember my nephew’s reaction when my mother put him in a corner for talking back to her. “I hate ...

I live in downtown Albany, which I see as a version of Koch-era New York City when it was the ...

I’ve never been a big fan of dirt.

There were more bird embryos this morning!

Some creative shut-in artists around here have been reading Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner out loud. The climate’s pall this ...

My son’s gaming friends opened their virtual arms to me last night. Maybe it had to do with the fact ...

It’s even hard to get the daily doses of flirtatious friendships that were once the norm for many lives. It’s ...

Do daily blogs need a narrative line? Or is the narrative playing out around us sufficient to provide continuity?

Cemeteries have gotten popular again. Their landscape of hills and dales, lawns and ancient trees, slightly wild flower plantings and ...

My cats go through personality changes whenever they step outside together. CP, who’s scared of everything and tends to get ...

I’m itching to have my antibodies tested. I’ve been imagining I have every symptom. I read on my phone about ...

(Photo by Dion Ogust) Sunny skies. People waving from the edges of their yards, where they’ve been pulling out weeds ...