06.22.2014 Community Wanted: One book about the newsroom Ambrose Clancy’s recent article about the company that prints the local newspapers was wonderful. His descriptions of the thunderous presses, the misting humidity spray, the rolls of paper being...
05.18.2014 Community Columns By the Book: He’s having his way with wacky wordplay I’m without a theme or new idea so it’s mixed-grill time again. I like this sort of column — there’s no worrying whether everything hangs together, like in English...
04.20.2014 Community Columns By the Book: There’s nothing like a great gumshoe It was a dark and stormy night. I dragged myself home from an endless stakeout, popped a Dos Equis and sprawled on the couch. Watched a documentary on “Butch...
03.23.2014 Community Columns By the Book: Nonfiction allows war tales to resonate I recently finished two books about war and the men who fight them. There were many similarities: Each followed a young soldier, each focused on a particularly ugly battle,...
02.23.2014 Community By the Book: When heart’s not in it, read this St. Valentine’s Day has come and gone — a day of cards and candy, but mostly a day of hearts. The cards overflow with them, the candy boxes are...
06.08.2012 Community By the Book: Why some vowels are weird and wonderful Remember learning the vowels, A, E, I, O and U, with the teacher inevitably adding “ … and sometimes Y and W”? Well, I’ve come up with 16 impressive...
05.06.2012 Community By the Book: Tuning in to what nature has to say We have an old copy of ‘Petersen’s Field Guide to the Birds.’ We’ve spotted most of the usual suspects, and also have seen some unusual ones. An American kestrel...
02.04.2012 Community By the Book: Songs that tell us stories about love And so it is in human life the goal To seek, forever seek, the kindred soul Jose Marti St. Valentine’s Day is next week — the day that urges...