Kent Bush: One year after Dawit came home

Dawit is doing very well. His language improves all the time. He takes speech once a week to help him learn English sounds. The transition from Tigrinyan to Amharic to English is not easy.

Peter Chianca: To the moon, Newton!

Hello and welcome to the Newton Leroy Gingrich Moon Base, the United States of America’s first fully functional moon colony and condominium complex! We’re sure you will find living here to be enjoyable and relaxing, without hordes of former homeowners clogging the streets like in your neighborhood back home.

Gary Brown: There’s a lot to celebrate in February, including love

 Despite being a short month, February has a long list of odd holidays.

Kent Bush: Timeout creates prayerful situation

I hate Sunday mornings. I should love Sunday mornings. I get to sleep a little later than a weekday and I really enjoy going to church each week. But the time period after waking up and before getting the kids to Sunday school is incredibly stressful for me.

Kent Bush: Chickens always come home to roost

This year, the GOP is working hard to find a candidate conservative enough to please tea party voters and right-wing radio hosts to take on Obama in November. The problem is that “playing to the base” is ineffective at best.

Gary Brown: Anyway you slice it, eat when you’re sick

As I grew older, and got out on my own, my mom still telephoned me and recommended what she called Campbell’s Penicillin. And she usually suggested that I fix some sort of mild and innocent-looking sandwich — one that wouldn’t make my eyes warn my stomach that something offensive was coming.

Peter Chianca: Bob Dylan tribute both far-out and way-out

Listening to “Chimes of Freedom,” the new 76-song Bob Dylan tribute to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International, is almost a stream-of-consciousness experience. You sometimes feel like you’ve accidentally stumbled into the most way-out coffeehouse in some alternate-universe Greenwich Village.

Kent Bush: Can't mock a political system that's already a joke

The political system used to be bad. Now that it has been fixed, it is even worse. Money has completely flipped the system. It used to be “to the victor goes the spoils.” But with our current system, without a lot of spoils, you will never taste victory.

Rick Holmes: Super PACs get comical on the campaign trail

Campaign financing has become such a farce that it takes two comedians to explain it best. For months, Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has been telling viewers how super PACs, the evil progeny of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, work.

Loretta LaRoche: Idle time isn’t necessarily wasted time

Columnist Loretta LaRoche laments that chilling out seems to get more and more difficult. She says idle time isn’t necessarily wasted time.

Gary Brown: Striking up the memories, thank you Don Carter

The greatest athlete I ever watched on television in my living room with my father, while begging to change the channel back to some monster movie, was bowler Don Carter.

Kent Bush: Rick Perry quits race, Republican candidates don't miss a beat

Texas Gov. Rick Perry dropped out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination before Saturday’s primary in South Carolina. That’s too bad because he missed a fun debate Thursday night.

Peter Chianca: Brilliant ‘opera pop’ from Elizaveta

Born in New York City and raised in Russia, the classically trained Elizaveta bills her sound as “opera pop,” which is enough to make anybody nervous. But don’t worry.

Gary Brown: Ditch the little red sports car until spring

Never drive a little sports car in a big snowstorm. To paraphrase a popular current television commercial, you’ll end up in a roadside ditch.

Peter Chianca: Kingsley Flood offers indie Americana

The Massachusetts-based Kingsley Flood, founded by frontman Naseem Khuri, first made a splash in 2010 with its debut album “Dust Windows,” a rollicking, literate collection of Americana-style tracks that got the group more than its share of local notice.

Kent Bush: Jon Huntsman added fun, but no threat

Jon Huntsman is dropping out of the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. I can’t say that I blame him.

Rick Holmes: What kind of governor was Mitt Romney?

To national Republicans, Massachusetts voters are a punchline, except when we elect a Mitt Romney or a Scott Brown. To the national media, our opinions are discounted because we’re not a swing state.

Loretta LaRoche: Freedom of thought can aid your digestive tract

Columnist Loretta LaRoche says she’s fed up with several thing, including constipation – of the mind and the body.

Kent Bush: Martin Luther King's dream is far from fulfilled

Everyone knows he had a dream. But he had so much more than that. Everyone knows he went to the mountaintop. But that was just one of his stops. Everyone knows he was a civil rights leader. But Martin Luther King Jr. was also a pastor. It just happens that he was called to pastor his flock through the valley of racial injustice.

Gary Brown: Marriage is not trendy; gray hair is

According to the seventh annual year-end forecast of “key trends” put out by the marketing firm JWT, “marriage isn’t an essential checkpoint for women.”

 

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