More on strangers touching

Jac sends this, a wonderful photographic experiment of posing two strangers together, as if they’re friends. After the shoot? They are. You can read more here. I love this stuff. Happy Tuesday.

And so it goes…

Back in August, I wrote about Mercedeh Pourmoghadam and Massoud Kalkorhan, who own Lighthouse Bakery in lovely Mystic, Conn. They were saying that town officials were treating them differently, and they suspected it was because they are of Iranian descent. So meetings were held. Lawyers were consulted. And this is what happened. I wrote it …

On being grateful…

We lost a family member, the stepdaughter of my sister-in-law. The deceased was a vivacious, fun-loving woman who was battling cancer when a stroke got her. She was just 52 and left a grieving husband, a son, and enough friends and family to form a long, long line last night at the funeral home. It may seem strange to …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m talking about Isabella Beecher Hooker at 11 a.m. Saturday at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Beardsley & Memorial Library in beautiful Winsted. Yes, it’s supposed to be beautiful Saturday, but Winsted’s worth the drive. Hope to see you there. Come heckle!

Your television is killing you.

Made you look! OK, in fact, binge-watching television shows (which some of us may have indulged in during the recent bad weather) is tied to depression and loneliness, according to a new University of Texas at Austin study. Because binge-watching is such a new phenomenon, this is one of the first studies of its kind. …