Oy vey! Bryan Stevenson, one of my all time favorites, asked this question in his book “Just Mercy.” So I’ve been trying to figure it out. So it goes with hate speech. So it goes with fear. When I was a kid watching … Read More

  UFORGE Gallery 767 Centre Street Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Join us for the start of some local holiday shopping at Uforge Gallery at 5:30PM from Thursday, December 3 through Tuesday, December 22. Over 50 artists and artisans will have … Read More

Sherrill Jaffe/Lisa Fliegel posts One way to deal with an obstacle which lies in your path is to remove it. But if you find after applying pressure that it will not give way — and there are, finally, those areas … Read More

Something I hadn’t considered since 1969. Did you watch the Apollo 10 launched from Cape Kennedy on May 18, 1969, on a black and white TV, with spindly antennas and fuzzy reception? Prior to that moment in my fourth grade … Read More

During yesterday’s press conference Obama got a tad miffed when reporters seemed to ask him the same question over and over again. In synonymous terms the question was something like: “Do you even have a clue of what’s going on in … Read More

by Sara Kreimer, May 5, 2014 EXCERPT:   The next day, Lisa Fliegel, the relentlessly energetic journalist-organizer the Center had hired to coordinate our planned Middle East textile conference, bounced into the office with an idea.  “Let’s put on our … Read More

By Maria Cramer, July 3, 2013 …Authorities have announced that there will be new security checkpoints on the Esplanade and tough new bans that will prohibit visitors from carrying in backpacks, coolers on wheels, cans, glass containers, premixed beverages, liquids greater than … Read More

By Neil Swidey, May 10, 2013 “I was at mile 25.6 when they stopped the race,” Bryson tells Lisa Fliegel, a trauma therapist who had shown up to volunteer her services. “I could have made it to the finish line.” … Read More