A FEELING OF SORROW
On a bitterly cold Wednesday morning a couple of weeks ago I walked slowly up Beacon Hill towards the Church on The Hill. I was walking slow not because of my COPD, but because it was particular day...
View ArticleFriendship
When it comes to true friendship between two people, many of us don’t know what that means. When we call someone our BFF, what does that really mean? Is it just something people say when they hang out...
View ArticleFossil Fuel and Other Things
It was just a little over 100 years ago when the automobile was invented. One only need look at today’s traffic reports to see what has happened. We’ve built a civilization where the automobile holds...
View ArticleMarijuana Sales Delay: Lawmakers Thwart The Freedom of the People
Practically hidden from view, with the exception of Stanley Rosenberg, the Senate president and Republican Minority Leader Bruce E. Tarr pushed through an amendment which delays the opening of...
View Article“American Carnage:” Trumpism and the Nationalist Turn
President Donald Trump gave his inaugural address this week. In it he painted a dystopian, apocalyptic landscape in America where factories were tombstones and people were wandering hungry and...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cake!
On January 21st 2017, the day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the new President of the United States, a news item came out about The Inaugural Cake. The celebrity baker Duff Goldman, owner of Charm...
View ArticleGarret’s Movie Palace: “Live By Night”
Adapting a good crime writer is never easy but Dennis Lehane’s prose is more cinematic than most and he writes lovely, loping dialogue that lifts his characters above the mundane. At least he does in...
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“Norse Mythology” by Neil Gaiman: A Book Review
Neil Gaiman respects the old gods, and that’s why he’s the proper man to write their tales. Gaiman did not just read tales that modern men have written to decipher the old god’s realities. He went back...
View ArticleRemember Them?
As I sit here putting together another column, the city of Boston and the entire state is being hit with our first real winter storm of the season. I can’t help but think of the homeless caught out in...
View ArticlePaying The Price
About two weeks ago, my chest started bothering me. I couldn’t really describe the feeling; it was like an itching across the inside of my chest. I didn’t know whether it was my heart or my lungs. When...
View ArticleGoodbye Harvard Square?
Late last week, I found out about a meeting taking place at Cambridge City Hall held by the Cambridge Historical Commission regarding the controversial proposal to gut the buildings that house the...
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OUT ON HER OWN: A Story of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness
Photo by Mike DeSocio. Author’s Note: The central character in this story, Liniște, asked that she be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons. I met Liniște in September and spent five months...
View ArticleRising street paper star found dead on the street
Community organizer, activist, and editor-in-chief of the world’s newest street paper Raven Canon was found dead under a highway pavilion in Colorado Springs. On March 4, at 9:30 a.m., a homeless woman...
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The Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is calculated by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It first appeared in 1947 when it evolved into a magazine from a newsletter. The Doomsday Clock symbolizes the urgency of...
View ArticleMarijuana Sales Delay: Lawmakers Thwart The Freedom of the People
Practically hidden from view, with the exception of Stanley Rosenberg, the Senate president and Republican Minority Leader Bruce E. Tarr pushed through an amendment which delays the opening of...
View ArticleLabor Pains and Growth in Recovery
Spare Change News is proud to present the second installment of its new monthly feature, “In Their Own Words,” which highlights the work of writers who meet at Rosie’s Place. In late 2014, Rosie’s...
View ArticleIndigenous People and Homelessness: a Distinct and Growing Reality
Photo by Paul Fleurent Carole Lévesque is a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) who specialises in urbanization, culture and society. Over the course of two years,...
View ArticleHolidays and Gray Hair
My birthday flew by, squashed between three holidays—Thanksgiving, Christmas/Chanukah and New Year’s Eve. While time was having its way with me, I had to go to the dermatologist to have various...
View ArticleVendor Fred Boykin: Life in Dorchester, life with cancer
This is for all the victims of the world, all the people like me: we were not born with cancer, but it still chose us. You can be young or old, it still picks you. I had lung cancer at first, at the...
View Article‘I Always Came Back’: A Story of Survival
“Hey, baby!” Linda Burston, with an illuminating smile and wide eyes, greets every woman who comes through the doors of Women’s Lunch Place. They always know when Linda is in the room; even among the...
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