Monday, January 26, 2015

Daisy J. Gabrielle, 1918 - 2015

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My remarkable mother-in-law died on Jan. 2, 2015. This is the eulogy I gave at her service a few days later. Good afternoon. We are her...
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Je Suis Charlie

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Remembering Dad

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I wrote and published this two years ago, on the tenth anniversary of my father's death. It's becoming an annual tradition to repos...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Providence Journal publishes ongoing series on mental health

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Readers of The Providence Journal and this blog know that the newspaper has counted stories about mental health and people living with ment...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Rhode Island's community mental health system is born

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 Thirty years ago, I wrote a six-part series for The Providence Journal (The Journal-Bulletin then) about the creation of Rhode Island's...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A few words about humor (actually, more than a few!)

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From Jonathan Swift to Saturday Night Live and The Onion -- and now, absrdCOMEDY -- writers have used satire to offer what Wikipedia (...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Along Michigan Avenue, Detroit: Part One

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A drive along the main boulevard of Michigan Avenue from Dearborn, Michigan, world headquarters of Ford, into downtown Detroit tells many st...

Along Michigan Avenue, Detroit: Part Two

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A drive along the main boulevard of Michigan Avenue from Dearborn, Michigan, world headquarters of Ford, into downtown Detroit tells many st...