Hooking Up The Bar None was always lively on Friday nights, but because it was Halloween, the joint was really jumping. All the tables were taken by people in costumes: glamorous witches in pointed silk hats, wearing black lipstick and eyeliner, sat with elegant vampires in white tie and tails, their faces dead white, some
Siri Strikes “In one point five miles, take a left onto R.T. 7,” Siri said. The driver of the 2019 Subaru Outback passed the intersection as if she hadn’t even spoken. “Recalculating route,” she said patiently. “At the next roundabout, take the first exit to the left onto Elm Street.” The overweight man behind the
The following is another excerpt from “Bert and I,” a collection of Down East stories collected and written down by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryn in the 1950s and 1960s. With all the blather from self-appointed political explainers about Bernie Sanders’ Presidential bid as a Democratic Socialist, I thought it might be useful to hear