Ah yes, it’s tick season again, and my husband Lolo is busy removing the nasty creatures from our watch dogs. For the dogs, the ticks are mainly a nuisance: but in some areas of the world, the risk of Lyme disease makes mothers hysterical if they find a tick on their kid. The big question [...]

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Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ullman Bell has distilled [...]

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Two brothers from Bristol County, Massachusetts have been indicted by a grand jury over asbestos related charges. Arthur Amaral and his brother, Shaun Amaral stand accused of breaching Clean Air Act regulations when removing asbestos from buildings in a manner that was deemed unsafe. One of the brothers owns the company Northeast Demolition and Removal, [...]

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This is a lively and enchanting account of living in Greece, on the island of Rhodes, written by a long-time expatriate. In his first book, Feta Accompli, John Manuel told a rambling story of how he came to fall in love with his wife, Yvonne-Marie – and the country of her birth, of how they [...]

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Jill has to call her new boss to say she won’t be coming in today because she has a family emergency. She promises to make up the hours she is missing later. When Katherine comes in she says she didn’t sleep well and she says she knows Jill must be even more tortured in all [...]

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A recent report has shown that in Canada more than fifty percent of victims suffering from the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma file for Workers Compensation, despite the fact that the majority of those that do file for this compensation are successful with their claims. The data relating to these claims was recently published in the [...]

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Our democracy has remained vibrant for more than two hundred and thirty years, In part because the founding fathers intentionally sought to fashion our system of government to pit leaders who shared common ideals against each other, in hope no one individual or party, would dominate political debate or public policy. Till the appointment of [...]

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