Pulling the occasional weekend duty at The Providence Journal required me to check the overnight police reports in the Capital City. Always ...

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Carol on the right, me at head of table, photo by Wayne Coats.   Not often that I make a make a book appearance and am treated to a fin...

... have been greatly exaggerated. But there have been reports, most recently last week in Forth Worth, Texas. I must say my trip to heaven...

As the next installment in our year-long series  Reinvent Rhode Island, The Providence Journal on Sunday, June 17, will publish a story abo...

Exercising their free-speech rights, members of Occupy Providence have set up camp on the sidewalk alongside a four-story symbol of those sa...

Spending the morning watching Providence Journal films as we plan our participation in this summer's Rhode Island International Film...

  Amazon is methodically migrating backlisted titles to Kindle. With the addition of MEN AND SPEED, my 2002 book about NASCAR, five of m...

For a piece I am writing about possible new uses for an iconic building in Rhode Island, I turned for inspiration to Boston, where the vener...

We were nominated in two categories, but The Providence Journal did not take home an award last night at the 35 th New England Emmys, hel...

Cile Prestamo, John Freidah and me. A fine evening May 18 at the Newton, Mass., Marriott, receiving the Edward R. Murrow Award for best...

©Marianne Lee / Courtesy of Salve Regina University   The 2012 Pell Scholars, with Mrs. Nuala Pell, center; me, behind her; and Dr. Khali...

 I will be speaking at 1 p.m. this Saturday, May 12, at the 35th annual convention of the Rhode Island chapter of the Special Libraries Asso...

BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, opening-night feature film of the 2010 Rhode Island Internati...

  In my many years at The Providence Journal, there have been few public-service efforts that rival the year-long examination of ...

We learned last night that COMING HOME,  which already this year has won a 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award, has been nominated for a 35t...

            Sunday’s kickoff to the  seventh annual Roving Eye Film Festival at Roger Williams University was a fine success. We had ...

With the combined promotional efforts of The Providence Journal, Roger Williams University and the Rhode Island International Film festiv...

The public is invited to COMING HOME: THE HUMAN FACE OF WAR, a free afternoon of documentaries and discussion on Sunday, April 22...

Edwards Hall, University of Rhode Island, April 15, 2012. On a warm spring day, with trees leafing and flowers blooming, a day he would...

DiStefano Hall Antone Building, Salve Regina U. Presented today at an American History class at Newport's Salve Regina University ...

Word today that the Providence Journal's first-ever documentary movie, COMING HOME, about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanista...

Katy Miller with her dad at N.K. Library talk. Spoke to a good crowd for an hour and a half Wednesday night at the North Kingstown Free ...

Frank and me in the Senate chamber.  Those who know me know my long admiration and deep respect for Frank Beazley, poet, artist, cham...

There will be a public memorial service for Pete at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in Edwards Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island. A rece...

RIP, Pete Lord, friend and colleague of all of us at The Providence Journal. Pete died this afternoon after almost 11 months of trying to...

After our successful broadcast premiere Monday, March 26, on Rhode Island PBS , The Providence Journal takes COMING HOME, our document...

 Fiction remains my first true writing love, and squeezed between my non-fiction work, I still manage some of it, mostly MEMORY, my nove...

Tonight is the broadcast premiere, followed by a live panel discussion of Coming Home, The Providence Journal's first feature-length do...

Speaking and reading 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at the Fabre Line Book Club on Providence's historic waterfront -- 200 Allens Ave. Ho...

One of the hundreds of stories The Providence Journal published in the first year after the tragedy alone. This was 11 days out, before the ...