Stop Throwing Stones

In fourth or fifth grade, I’m not sure which, I encountered a rock fight in a vacant lot as I walked from school to my part time job as a clean-up boy at the local movie theater. I knew several participants on either side and I remember thinking how stupid it...

Children Yet Unborn

“They were supposed to be stewards of the earth!” shouts a member of the Divine Council, railing against the damage the human race has done to the planet and the other creatures that inhabit it. This, of course, is fiction, taken from my fable (or...

Congrats to Dean Rondeau

This post is a simple congratulatory note to Captain Dean Rondeau of the Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Police Department. Captain Rondeau will take over as Chief of Police in January from outgoing chief Stuart Chase. Although I’ve only had a few conversations with...

Next up- Anarchy

I’m feeling very sorry for our children and grandchildren right now. No matter who wins this election, I see no way that this country can overcome the amount of hatred, division, and bigotry that has been generated during this campaign. If Trump wins, people say...

Power and Greed

Motive, means, and opportunity- the mantra recited by any homicide investigator  as he begins to sort out the suspects in a crime. We all know the detectives in the Stacey Burns murder case have this all figured out as they continue the intense investigation into this...

My Tom Brokaw letter

This is a part of a letter I wrote to Tom Brokaw in January, 1999. Its subject was his book on the “greatest generation.” However, perhaps it is as applicable today as it was then. The idealism mentioned is that of the members of that incredible World War...