Across the big cities and small towns of Connecticut, our children are returning to school. Some are climbing aboard school buses, excited to return to some degree of normalcy. Others remain isolated at home, hunched behind computer screens – if they’re even online. All, we’re told, based on the mandates ...
It’s midnight, Saturday night, in the middle of the statewide electrical outages after Tropical Storm Isaias. I’m lying in bed, bathed in a pool of my own sweat. And I am seething. Our family is one of the lucky ones – we have a generator, so our refrigerator and at ...
Sitting in our family room last night, my eyes fell on a pair of upholstered chairs routinely occupied by my husband and son. The arms of both have grown frayed and a little shabby over time – but they’re like old friends; as a tiny boy, my son would jump ...