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Opinion: What’s happening to our mojo?
01-11-2025 6:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com.

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Opinion: Is everything a fluke?
01-04-2025 6:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Humans have always gotten despondent when winter solstice descended, causing the world to go dark. In response, religions of every...


Opinion: Is there a new paradigm emerging inspired by fungi & a family therapist?
12-28-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. In the early 1990s, while attending graduate school at Antioch in Keene, I fell in love with the work of the social worker Lynn...


Opinion: Resist falling down the rabbit hole
12-22-2024 6:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I admit it. I fell in love with Kamala and her campaign of joy, which stressed the best in us and charted how we could all move forward...


Opinion: The evils of for-profit healthcare
12-14-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. When I started this essay, the hitman who assassinated Brian Thompson was still running free, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare,...


Northwood house destroyed by fire, nobody hurt
12-11-2024 2:07 PM

An unoccupied summer home in Northwood burned Tuesday evening. Nobody was injured, fire officials said.The fire at 59 West St. was called in by a neighbor around 6 p.m. and quickly went to a third alarm. Crews from 15 communities eventually responded,...


Opinion: Hope isn’t a feeling, it’s a choice
12-07-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. A transactional ethos has overtaken our land. We can see its most extreme form in Donald Trump. We also see it blatantly showcased, not...


Opinion: First came the ‘60s, now the counter-revolution
12-01-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I was born in the 1940s and grew up in the 1950s. The ‘50s was a strange chapter in American life: banal, antiseptic, and...


Opinion: This is my Hinoki’s Shadow
11-23-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This is my hinoki tree or, to be more exact, its shadow. The shadow represents, as Carl Jung understood, all the painful things we...


Opinion: Humphrey & Donald
11-15-2024 4:00 PM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I have been in a state of suspended animation since Donald Trump won the election. It’s like I was peacefully walking down my driveway...


Opinion: Between bonobos and a chimp
11-10-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I recently read a mind-popping piece in the Atlantic by Melvin Konner about the evolution of early humans and primates. It’s an...


Opinion: High brows versus low brows
11-03-2024 6:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Even if Kamala wins on Tuesday, NYT Columnist Bret Stephens asks two provocative questions: “How did Trump still get so very, very...


Opinion: We have a choice, according to Ta-Nehisi Coates (and this stone mason)
10-12-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Waking up in Portsmouth, groggily looking out the third-story window of the Airbnb where we were staying, I couldn’t believe my eyes:...


Update: Man fatally shot by police Tuesday at a residence in Northwood identified
10-01-2024 9:10 AM

A 34-year-old man was shot dead by police when an officer responded to a report of domestic violence at a home in Northwood early Tuesday morning.A Northwood officer responded to 534 First New Hampshire Turnpike, off Route 4, around 5:17 a.m. due to...


Opinion: Meditating on a bitter dock
09-14-2024 8:00 AM

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....


Concord man dies at Jenness Pond in Northwood
09-05-2024 12:01 PM

RACHEL WACHMAN

Concord resident George Chapman, 68, died Wednesday after being found unconscious and not breathing in the water at Jenness Pond in Northwood, according to the New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol.Authorities believe Chapman suffered a medical...


Opinion: Tales of resilience
08-31-2024 7:00 AM

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...


Opinion: 1968: What a year it was
08-24-2024 7:00 AM

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....


Opinion: Revisiting tribalism
08-17-2024 7:00 AM

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...


Opinion: Welcoming the Other
08-09-2024 4:00 PM

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...


Opinion: There’s something happening, it’s in the air
08-02-2024 4:00 PM

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...

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