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Coffee in Jail
1. THERE IS NO COFFEE in the Chemung County Jail. There used to be coffee. Also parenting classes, drug counseling, and the opportunity to purchase, from the jailhouse commissary, packages of Continue reading
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1. THERE IS NO COFFEE in the Chemung County Jail. There used to be coffee. Also parenting classes, drug counseling, and the opportunity to purchase, from the jailhouse commissary, packages of Continue reading
CONFESSION: summer isn’t really my season. I like soft spring afternoons, and crisp, smoky fall evenings. And I love the snows of winter. When it gets really hot, my instinct is Continue reading
MY CHILDREN have snow anxiety. For the record, this started in the winter of 2011–12 when no snow fell — at all — and sleds, saucers, skis, and snowball makers sat Continue reading
IMAGINE MY SHOCK. I was living in Massachusetts for the first time. Adjusting. The first time I saw snow falling past my Somerville apartment window, I told a woman on the Continue reading
AGED FOURTEEN and without his parents’ approval, the future King Henry II hired a band of mercenaries, sailed from France to England, and failed to take two minor castles. In the Continue reading