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By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Why do so many obituaries praise the dead for waging a heroic battle against their fate? Why does death have to be described as such a...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The cricket’s persistent song of autumn used to haunt me, reminding me how brief life is, especially now I’m old. But it doesn’t have to...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Being blind doesn’t mean you can’t see.I had an epiphany reading about how a blind man could still see — and, surprisingly, in a more...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. As I write this, Lee, a major hurricane, is slowly churning northward off the eastern seaboard. While it’s too early to tell where it...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A Northwood man, 77, was killed Saturday from injuries sustained during a collision involving his motorcycle and another vehicle, police said. At around 3 p.m. on Saturday, the Northwood Police Department responded to Route 4 in the vicinity of Blakes...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Remember “The Truman Show,” the hit movie starring Jim Carrey about “a man who grew up living an ordinary life that — unbeknownst to him...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I was struck by a recent essay by Timothy Denevi in the New York Times about the writer Joan Didion. On the surface, it seems strange...

By NINA MOSKE 

The demolition of a historic Northwood building was put on hold for a few more weeks after a last-ditch preservation effort Tuesday night. Built over 200 years ago, the Center School, a small white building named for its location at the geographic...

By JAMIE L. COSTA

A high-speed motorcycle chase that began in Strafford on Monday morning ended in Northwood when the operator was taken into custody after striking and injuring a police officer, according to State Police. Strafford police attempted to stop...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I wrote in my last My Turn column about the power of advertising to seduce folks into buying things they don’t need. I foggily...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. L. M. Sacasas is the author of an illuminating newsletter, The Convivial Society, tracing the intersection of technology, society, and...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Making things with your hands gets a bad rap today. It’s so blue-collar. You’re a failure if you don’t go to college to get a...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I was taken aback when I heard she had written a new book. She had disappeared from sight over 30 years ago after a devastating injury....

By Monitor staffThe weekend’s heavy rains caused some minor problems around the state but they didn’t cause a much bigger problem in Northwood because the fire department was ready.The small creek that runs from a wetland under Route 202 near the...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Leo Tolstoy wrote “What Then Must We Do?”back in 1887, stating“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Since Donald Trump entered the national consciousness in 2016, he has harped on everything wrong with America. While it’s healthy to...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Our plummeting life expectancy is an extraordinary event that flies in the face of past historical patterns. We are dying younger than...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Ecology is usually thought of as a study of nature. But because it is derived from the Greek word for household, ecology literally means...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I love New Hampshire and always will. But, I have to admit, living in the Bay area of California this winter opened my eyes to a few...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. It’s just the way we are built. Each half of our brain looks at the world differently: our left hemisphere is cognitive and sequential,...