» The day the world began to turn upside down. March 5, 1770, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The day the world began to turn upside down. March 5, 1770, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

By: Howard Martell

 

» First snow comes to Cambridge, February 12, 2012, a story of life's unpredictable savor and joys.

By: Howard Martell

 

» The hemorrhage at the U.S. Postal Service gets worse. Face it, the time for massive overhaul at this venerable institution is nigh.

By: Howard Martell

 

» 'And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight....' The tulips are coming! April 5, 2011.

By: Howard Martell

 

» 'If you're ever in a jam, here I am.' Thoughts on a friend you adore, eat, and shamefully forget (until your next craving): jam.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Of earmuffs, sissies, bone-chilling cold, and warm ears; thanks to young inventor Chester Greenwood.

By: Howard Martell

 

» 'Riders on the storm.' A nor'easter wallops New England. Its aftermath, Sunday, February 10, 2013. The landscape of our mind changed.

By: Howard Martell

 

» So you want to be a CEO. Think again! Newly discovered manuscript by Scarlet O'Hara tells all... and you'll be shocked and aghast at what she reveals about life at the top of the business heap.

By: Howard Martell

 

» 'Cruel and usual punishment.' Thoughts on the way we put people to death and on one man in particular, Dennis McGuire, executed at 53, January 16, 2014.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Umbuntu, 'We are growing/Growing higher and higher.' Thoughts on leadership as inspired by the life and choices of Nelson Mandela, 'Hear the children, hear thechildren/They are talking to you.'

By: Howard Martell

 

» A commentator's anniversary, three years, one thousand articles, more than two million words, one man's work, his vocation, his bliss.

By: Howard Martell

 

» The Spider of the Kremlin and his cunning webs. The man who would be tsar and the Ukraine he covets to distraction. Vladimir Putin. The situation in Kiev. Some thoughts on a great people determined to be truly free.

By: Howard Martell

 

» On collecting political autographs. Downers Grove, Illinois, 1960, age 13.

By: Howard Martell

 

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By: Howard Martell

 

» Thoughts on books.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Son of a gun. The murderous bullets of Sparks. Monday, October 21, 2013. The ineradicable shame of a great nation, knowing what must be done, unable to do it. And Mozart... who turns our tears and rage into the majesty of Redemption. A tale.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Good boy! Bad book! Thoughts on Larry DiCara, his antiseptic memoir, and what it takes to arrest the attention of the world and gain eternity with words you just can't put down.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Rochus Misch; guard for Hitler saw fuehrer's last hours, dead at 96, September 5, 2013. 'There are none so blind as those who will not see'.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Harvard and MIT to offer free online classes. What it means for you, what it means for the world, what it means for education.

By: Howard Martell

 

» Last days of the egregious Evan Dobelle, still hanging in there as president of Westfield State University... to the embarrassment of everyone but... Evan! A cautionary tale.

By: Howard Martell

 

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