Here we are in August already, the summer flying by. What with vacation and all, I have been absent for a few weeks from here (though not @g...

Scenes from the start of the annual Gaspee Days parade, June 14, 2014.

Several people have weighed in on my posting a link to “To the Princeton Privileged Kid,” which more eloquently than I ever could make...

Our second annual Story in the Public Square Story Day, held on Friday, April 11, at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., was by all ac...

  While writing The Providence Journal feature "A Remarkable Life" and the biography An Uncommon Man about Nuala and Claib...

A crowd of hundreds braved a punishing winter wind Sunday to demonstrate on the front steps of the magnificent Rhode Island State House...

Thanks once more to my good friends at Crossroad Press , the esteemed David Wilson and David Dodd, the third volume of my collected short...