Category Archives: New England

Hail To Da Chief

May 21, 2013 – 8:37 pm

Hail storms are rare in the Northeast, but this afternoon my comrade Eric Bad Boy experienced hail driving from Albany to the Berkshires. “I thought we going to get hit by a tornado. What’s it like in New York?” “Sunny and humid.” I was fighting traffic across the Manhattan Bridge. There wasn’t a cloud in […]

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Tonight’s Light Show

April 13, 2013 – 6:17 pm

In the Spring of 1963 my father called us out of our split-level ranch house in the Blue Hills south of Boston. He excitedly pointed to the sky. My brothers, sisters, mother, and I scanned the night for UFOs and I was the first to spot the reason for us standing on the lawn in […]

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Whales for Sale USA

February 20, 2013 – 8:49 pm

Back in 2007 two humpback whales became befuddled by the backwash of mobile phones in San Francisco Bay and swam seventy miles up the Sacramento River. Oceanologists failed to seduce the errant sea mammals to the open sea with love sirens from other whales and Japanese researchers offered to lend California marine biologists a sonar […]

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Neither Snow Nor Sleet

February 9, 2013 – 4:21 pm

[1] While the United States Postal Service has no official creed or motto the words ‘Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.’ are carved into Manhattan’s James Farley Post Office. According to Wikipedia the phrase was derived from a Herodutus translation […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

August 18, 2012 – 10:17 am

The clouded horizon buried the autumn sun and a moonless darkness soon smothered the Connecticut Hills with a wolfish gloom challenged only by the funnel of holiday traffic on the Interstate. Few travelers noticed the rundown motel hidden in the woods off exit 74. Its neon sign had been out of order since the summer. […]

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