His name is Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point,” an important book for anybody studying psychology and sociological changes. Anyways, if you go to his website THE MALCOLM GLADWELL BOOK GENERATOR, you will have an enjoyable few minutes.  Especially if you actually still read books.  Go…click on the link!

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(I first read this 20+ years ago.  It’s worth reading again…and again…) SOUL MURDER The child sat with his head in his hands, rocking back and forth. “And if you did not want it, you should not have asked for it,” the woman said, “for you do not know what it means to deserve something, [...]

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Easier said than done, eh?  You’re trying to cram everything into an already non-stop day, running from one thing to another, your phone keeps chirping and there’s a line out the door of people who want your attention…NOW. Wanna climb off?  Me too.  So when I received a copy of “A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook,” [...]

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Editor’s Note: He finished his last show at Dead North in Danville nearly four years ago and then disappeared into the night. Until today, nobody knew where he’d been.  But the man known as Jingo The Dark Clown is back in St. Johnsbury, preparing to perform at the Belly Dance Circus, at Catamount Arts on [...]

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There are gazillions of Self Help books out there.  Most are a waste of your time and money. This is not one of those.  There’s no magical cure for what ails you, you will not become a healthy, buff overnight success when you read this.  If you want to get something out of this book, [...]

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A Good List (Homage to Lorenz Hart) Some nights, can’t sleep, I draw up a list, Of everything I’ve never done wrong. To look at me now, you might insist My list could hardly be long, But I’ve stolen no gnomes from my neighbor’s yard, Nor struck his dog, backing out my car. Never ate [...]

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Voices Imagined voices, and beloved, too, of those who died, or of those who are lost unto us like the dead. Sometimes in our dreams they speak to us; sometimes in its thought the mind will hear them. And with their sound for a moment there return sounds from the first poetry of our life— [...]

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Aging webmaster’s note:  While performing some routine tasks Wednesday morning, I managed to delete the entire website.  The entire thing!  Fortunately, it gets backed up every few days.  Unfortunately, that means anything posted in the past forty-eight hours or so vanished into that place where deleted computer files and socks go.  That includes the latest [...]

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Rachael?  Martha?  Thpffft!  This is Nadia G, proprietor of Montreal’s Bitchin’ Kitchen.  We had a chance to chat Friday morning about food, comedy, food, relationships, accents, food, her webisodes and…food. audio

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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen [...]

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