Archive for November 6th, 2011

Elizabeth Warren in Lowell

When, at the end of her introduction of Elizabeth Warren at the Butler Middle School today in Lowell, Congresswoman Niki Tsongas said “They will rue the day they didn’t appoint her” to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she tapped into the enthusiasm of the overflow crowd and of the…

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A resilient tree

The birch tree that I planted back in 2004 along the property line has grown tall with three distinct trunks. Last Sunday morning, with its leaves weighed down by heavy wet snow, each of the three trunks was bent over nearly touching the ground (photo above). While there were no…

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