Author Archives: paulefallon

It’s May Day, the blooms along Brattle Street are breathtaking, we had a Royal Wedding this week, replete with flowing trains and outrageous hats, and today I ate my first watermelon of the season.  Despite front page news of war … Continue reading →

I spent today, Easter Sunday, with my children, who are both students at UMass Amherst.  During the day I was reminded of a class trip we took ten years ago to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  May is Museum … Continue reading →

In the first three months of 2011 I know two people who died, three family members who were admitted to the ICU, and I lost count of the reported aches and flu’s flying around my orb. Blame it on the … Continue reading →

The main branch of the Cambridge Public Library has been open over a year.  The building has been heralded as a success both as a work of architecture (Boston Globe 11/10/2009) and for stimulating library use (over 4,000 items were … Continue reading →

There is a remarkable two page photograph in the NY Times Magazine (2/13/2011); the stone interior of a dim church, seven worshippers bundled in their winter coats dispersed among the pews, a sharp shaft of light descending on a balding, … Continue reading →

This piece was presented as an editorial commentary on WBUR in March, 2002.  I recalled it when I read a recent NY Times article about he unfolding sex-abuse scandal in Ireland, which I discuss in a companion piece. There is a crisis … Continue reading →

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is getting a lot of traction calling out public sector employees as 21st century welfare queens. Thirty-five years ago Ronald Reagan popularized the phrase during the 1976 presidential campaign, spinning elaborate tales of women, mostly … Continue reading →