The New Englander

My wife saw the video below, immediately posted it Facebook, and then told me I would love it.  No surprise, I did.   As I've said m...

I opened up my morning paper today and saw that my high school's most prominent alum, James Comey, is about to be nominated as FBI Dire...

When I was overseas in 2011, something dawned on me in an early-morning hour.  The Big Revelation was that Fannie and Freddie were STILL ba...

Driving through Boston today and seeing a bunch of college kids moving out of their dorms, I reflected back a bit on how I think now, vs....

I am about to wrap up a very, very busy period. Probably equivalent to a deployment in terms of weekly workload, but far, far better in t...

I don't know if this bit of grad-season advice will go viral in the way last year's speech at Wellesley High did (You're Not S...

I understand that Worcester City officials are extremely frustrated right now -- the police details outside the funeral home are costing th...