Freezing – Michael Morse

A shovel with icicles hanging from the side of a house.

by Michael Morse, contributing writer Water dripped on my snow shovel as the sun warmed my roof. Icicles formed where my hands were just yesterday, digging through six inches of powder and slush. February warm in New England is twelve degrees, wind chill somewhere below zero. The nights are wicked; as the sun sets it…

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Anxious People – a book review by Jim Raftus

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by Jim Raftus Swedish novelist Fredrik Backman’s newest novel, Anxious People, captures the angst of modern life through the lens of a botched bank robbery, an accidental hostage taking and a single day going really, really sideways. Oh, possible suicides also hover. It is a comic novel for folks with neurosis. Backman’s earlier works, such…

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