Class and Health

We have all heard the term “stressed out,” and most of us feel thusly quite often. We also know that stress can impact our long term health in insidious ways, and is often linked to many of the most common diseases people our prone to in the twenty-first century – including heart disease, diabetes, anxiety, […]

Our Heroin Problem

My monthly article will continue Dr. Julian Jones’ recent column that discussed the heroin problems in our area. My intention is to contribute to the mounting media focus on the local heroin problem, in the hope that bringing this issue “out of the closet” and “into the forefront” of our community focus may help some […]

A TALE OF TWO CITIES – Published in the Monadnock Shopper February 2013

I write from Manchester.  Manchester England.  The town for which the largest city in New Hampshire is named.  Perhaps more importantly Manchester, England is where the industrial revolution began.  Here in this midland city mechanized textile mills were first introduced; cotton grown by slaves from the south of the United States and elsewhere was turned […]