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Generations: When A Scream is More Than A Scream

December 15, 2025
The generation above mine worked long and earnestly for years to overcome gender stereotypes. Through effort and perseverance, keen leadership and insistence, the idea that all women had to be tiny-waisted, home-tidying, husband-seeking and spider-fearing was tossed into a historical fire. It…

Generations: The James I Knew

October 6, 2024
Though he has never met me, I have met James Taylor many times. Half a century ago, his long-haired gaze on the “Sweet Baby James” album cover promised to see me (and only me) through the depths of adolescence. ‘We’re in this…

Garden Gems: Back-to-School Dahlia Pyrotechnics

September 26, 2024
Pompom. Cactus. Mignon. Waterlily. What seems like a random bunch of words could, in fact, make up a foursome in the New York Times Connections game—each one describes a distinct form of dahlia flower. (There are maybe a dozen forms in all;…

Ask Lisa: How to Break the Late-Night Scrolling Habit

September 24, 2024
With Belmont High School instituting a ban on cell phone use in the classroom this year, many parents are still grappling with how to help their teens develop healthy screen time habits outside of school. A parent recently asked me: “This past…

Generations: Not Pausing for Menopause

September 23, 2024
“Guess what my mother-in-law gave me for Christmas,” said my friend Jill, rolling her eyes. “Menopause pajamas!” This was about 10 years ago, and I almost fell on the floor laughing. Menopause pajamas! What even was that? Jill and I were barely…

Generations: Back to the Classroom for Belmont Teens

September 5, 2024
With the ominous return of advertisements for back-to-school sales and plans for Labor Day cookouts, students can’t escape the feeling that summer just begun, and yet—somehow—it’s already time to return to the classroom. For BHS students, each new year brings change: last…

Garden Gems: Purple Love Grass is the Perfect Perennial

August 26, 2024
In this summer of extremes—drench, drought, horrible heat—many plants in my garden have struggled. But one of them, purple love grass, Eragrostis spectabilis, has taken it all in beautiful stride. Purple love grass is an easy to grow, low-maintenance, perennial bunchgrass. It…

Garden Gems: Why and How to Tackle Black Swallow-wort

August 18, 2024
Even if you don’t know its name, you’ve likely seen black swallow-wort around town. This twining vine with narrow, glossy leaves is as likely to lurk in shadow among the branches of a privet hedge as sprawl across a chain-link fence. When…

Generations: The Perfect Wrong Turn

August 13, 2024
Sometimes fate and chance live on the same block. Here is a tale of how turning onto the wrong street 30 years ago led to a 15-year mortgage and a happy home. We were lost, trying to get back to our small…

Garden Gems: You Can Grow Cactus in New England

August 9, 2024
Years ago, when shopping for rock garden plants at my local nursery, I was surprised to find a cactus, eastern prickly pear, Opuntia humifusa, on offer. The notion of growing cactus in my east coast garden, some 2,500 miles from the nearest…
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