Ever been mad as hell and scared to death at the same time? Well, lately I have been, and it is not a great or happy combination.I watch the news on TV, listen to NPR on the radio, and see seemingly countless news items on Facebook, primarily from red.
I had the pleasure of seeing former Valley resident Dar Williams perform at the Bellows Falls Opera House last weekend. I have to admit that I was largely unfamiliar with much of Dar’s work, but I felt that, based upon everything I had heard about.
Unless you’ve being living under a rock, you are probably well aware that Prince Harry has a new book called “Spare.” While I don’t intend to purchase or read the book, by all accounts, it is a written version of what Seinfeld character Frank Costanza.
In the year after I started my male-to-female transition, I wrote letters to my two adult sons. I never heard back from them, but my wife told me they felt my letters didn’t sound like me. I thought this was a bit funny, because I had never written to.
We were happy and moved to read the column by Mariel Addis, “A living, breathing success story” (Gazette, Oct. 3) thank you, Ms. Addis, for sharing your story. We hope that more stories like hers will be shared widely, in hopes to dampen the vitriol.