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Won’t Be Stopped

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By Pamela McLoughlin

NORTH BRANFORD >> Alex Bode, 26, has a rare degenerative neuromuscular disorder that has stolen her ability to walk and severely compromised her movement, hearing, eyesight, speech, cardiac state and spine. Read More

Memories of Maple Sugaring

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When I saw Floyd Caplan’s delightful paintings of sugarhouses and other lovely rural scenes while walking the corridors of Whitney Center, I was reminded of my days as a schoolkid helping to gather maple sap. That was on our family farm in Conway, Massachusetts, about thirteen miles south of the Vermont border in the foothills of the Berkshires, just west of Interstate 91. Read More

DERAILED

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This is how close I came to derailing Charles’s career. Charles graduated from Harvard College—and Harvard Medical School with honors. This was enough to alert the deans of the schools to the possibility that Charles could be a candidate for one of the faculty positions. Read More

My Two Mothers

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How best to write about my two mothers? The one who brought me to the beach or the one who taught me to swim? The one who nursed me through a myriad of childhood illnesses (some serious), or the one who was squeamish but shared my room until I was thirteen? Read More