Arts and Entertainment
Holiday Gifts For Sale From Talented Folks I Know
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Looking for a last-minute gift you can buy online and get to know more about your friends at InDepthNH.org? Now’s the time and here’s some suggestions.
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Radio Free N.H. — My Annual Chanukah Column
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Priesthoods belong to settled cultures. They mark agricultural surplus, centralized administration and social hierarchy. Prophets ignore those things. They are individuals who claim a special relationship to the divine. Prophets and priests are natural opponents. Nothing rattles an established priesthood like a new vision of truth.
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Speaking of Words: Our Planetary Language
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English is indisputably the world language today, and how it got to be so is a topic well worth discussing, but in this column, I mean something else by planetary.
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Budget Vogue: Best Finds of 2025
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I think of moments where I was delighted to have a couple of bucks in my pocket to splurge on things or events that made 2025 more bearable, enjoyable even.
Business & Economy
Robert Frost’s Home and Museum in Franconia Among LCHIP Grant Recipients
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In a 1919 letter written by poet Robert Frost, he worried that the cellar to his 1850s home here was so flooded with water that it might destroy the recently purchased furnace.
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Married to the Man in the Red Suit: Life as a Santa’s Helper Widow in December
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There are many kinds of marriages in the world, but mine comes with an extra seasonal clause; every December, I share my husband with the world.
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Speaking of Words: Metaphor or Simile?
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We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”
metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.”
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Joyful Musings: Life Marked By Lovers and Clothes and Dogs
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And today I muse joyfully on dogs that have done just that, dogs that were furry calendars, diaries, snapshots of time.
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Writing on the Fly: Requiem For Mad Beaver Pond
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There is comfort in things staying the same. Most people don’t enjoy change especially when the change takes them out of their comfort zone. There is security in things staying the same.