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Generations: Keeping Calm, Carrying On in Face of Lockdown

April 3, 2026

My parents went to school in the 1950s, when they had to participate in the (in)famous “duck and cover” drills. The idea: Hiding under your desk made you safe from a nuclear attack, important at the height of the Cold War. As…

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Generations: Living to Work or Working to Live

October 2, 2025

This November marks my 20-year anniversary at work. I’m not really sure how this happened. I started out as a part-time employee with a baby at home, and here I am, still doing the same tasks in university administration. Sure, I make…

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Generations: What People Don’t Understand About Teenagers and Screens

October 2, 2025

Let’s face it. For the most part, teenagers get a pretty bad reputation. From constantly filming TikToks to following crazy trends, we have a lot of information to entertain ourselves, and a lot of information to mislead ourselves. That said, can we…

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Garden Gems: Preparations Lead to Mini-Forest Planting Day Oct. 4

October 1, 2025

Since I last wrote back in February about plans for Belmont’s first Miyawaki forest, many steps have been taken to prepare for planting day, Oct. 4 at the site in front of the high school and just west of Clay Pit Pond.…

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Embracing Change: The Firstborn College Dropoff

September 24, 2025

I confess I was not looking forward to taking my son to college. It’s not that I wasn’t excited for him, but he was anxious about the change and I was worried about saying goodbye to my firstborn. I knew we would…

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Ask Lisa: Guidance on ‘Cut-Off Culture’

September 23, 2025

A parent reached out for guidance: “Despite raising three children in a loving home, one of my daughters and I have a difficult relationship. We’ve had yelling matches (what family hasn’t?), but there was never any abuse. I’ve worked hard to support…

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Garden Gems: Inspiration for Curbside Cultivation

September 8, 2025

Whether you call it the verge, tree lawn, banquette, boulevard, or curb strip (or any of several dozen other names, depending on where you grew up), that piece of land between the sidewalk and street is a difficult row to hoe. Often,…

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Generations: The Lessons of Being a Teen Columnist

September 2, 2025

My career as a columnist for The Belmont Voice almost ended before it began. A little more than a year ago, I was walking through Belmont Center searching for the newspaper’s office. It was 1:50 p.m., and I was 20 minutes late…

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Generations: The Watershed Moment of the Deep-End Test

August 25, 2025

Everyone has memories (just ask a psychiatrist), but mathematically speaking, older people have more. It’s our cosmic reward for the joint and bone problems we have as well. This summer, my memories are of the deep-end test. A few times a week,…

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Generations: It Is All About the Deterrent

August 11, 2025

A beloved former neighbor, the kind of frontiersman who performed his own tree surgery with ladders and ropes, wired his own circuits, repaired his own plumbing, and offered plenty of wanted and unwanted advice about attic insulation, once came to a Town…

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From The Stacks: The Library Is Much More Than Just Books

August 9, 2025

As August begins, we take one more step toward my favorite season—autumn—and one giant leap closer to one of the most exciting moments in Belmont history: the opening of our brand-new library. But summer’s still going strong, and that means it’s the…

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