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By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This is a photograph I took of a bitter dock, a common weed in New Hampshire. This one stands as a sentinel at the foot of my driveway....

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Psychological resilience is that rare quality that enables some survivors to prosper after devastating trauma or misfortune, millstones...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. As the Democratic Convention unfurled this week in Chicago, everyone tried to compare it to the infamous 1968 convention in that city....

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I had an epiphany watching Kamala Harris’s first campaign rally in Atlanta. It came to me that tribalism can be a good thing, a...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Like deja vu all over again, today’s burning issues are the same as those two generations ago. That much became apparent to me from...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Much has been written about the transcendental nature of group experience over the centuries. Unfortunately, most of this accumulated...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This birch tree is special to me. It was just a mere sapling back in 1977 when I was building my house. Marauding kids, footloose for...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Have you ever noticed your status in your local community no longer depends so much upon your behavior, character, and reputation? In...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com I enjoyed doing the research for my gardening essay last week. It enticed me to dig deeper into the essence of gardening. I started...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. After finishing planting my little vegetable garden, I feel great. The rototiller gave me a better workout than the gym, and my new...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This essay is a continuation of last week’s piece questioning the value of new technology like Apple’s latest iPad. Yes, this...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com Is technology crushing human creativity? That was the question asked in the May 11 article in the Concord Monitor about a recent Apple...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. “Even the words that we are speaking now / thieving time has stolen away, / and nothing can return,” – Horace’s Odes, 23 BCWatching my...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I need to vent about the college protests. I am beside myself, appalled at my country’s unconditional military support of Israel’s...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. What would an old Yankee think? Around Jenness Pond, it used to be an April Fool’s joke to tell folks the ice was out when it wasn’t....

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Traditionally, New Hampshire folks have been known to be self-reliant, maybe to the extent of appearing standoffish, because of our...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. With our mild weather so far this year, New Hampshire has avoided calamitous climate change. Texas hasn’t been so lucky with its...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. We fool ourselves by believing if only we had more facts and better technology, we could solve any problem, even climate change and,...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. As a teenager, I avoided silence at all costs. Even in nature, I had a crackling transistor radio glued to my ear, tuned to the beat of...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Listening to PBS like the old fogy I am, I discovered that among the hip, a new fiction genre is sweeping the country: It’s called...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. When I was young, I wasn’t religious. After I got back from Vietnam, God was dead. Enchantment was a foreign concept to me. A rare...