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By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John in Philadelphia, “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Several years ago, we and another couple saw Bohemian Rhapsody in a theater. On the way out, we heard a group of high school aged “kids” talking about how amazing it would have...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. It’s astonishing that millions of Americans are starry-eyed about ceding power to a self-styled strongman who’s already demonstrated he’ll go to any length to keep it. Yes,...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. The American Society on Aging (ASA) will celebrate Ageism Awareness Day on October 7. Modeled after the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons (Oct. 1), Ageism...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Plutocracy: a form of government or rulership by the rich. This political system is dominated by wealthy people who influence the country’s political, economic, and social...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. ‘This…will be the mightiest day in the history of our lives, the holiest, & the most generous toward us both – for it makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. “’When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less’. ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. “You can’t expel hope.” – Tennessee Representative Justin PearsonSometimes, it’s hard to be hopeful. The front runner for the 2024 GOP primary is promising, “I am your...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. I was moved by the quote from Dr. Martin Luther King in Michael L. Fischler’s My Turn in last month’s Monitor. It started with, “I am convinced that men hate each other because...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Awareness about the health, economic, and environmental costs of fossil fuel use aren’t the creation of liberal snowflakes, hippies, or communists, and the push back isn’t new,...