Street Talk: Kimberly Moreau and the cruel unknown

Kimberly Moreau deserves rest. Her family deserves it even more. 

Street Talk: Remembering Randy Whitehouse, a friend

Randy Whitehouse, my friend and confidant of a quarter-century, is gone.

Street Talk: News that punches you in the gut

Maybe the perfect reporter would be one who is never personally affected by anything that comes his way. Just writes up all the grim facts, collects his check and moves along in a cold and clinical way. 

Street Talk: Hankering for a small-town gig

There's a certain kind of salt-of-the-earth charm about local scuttlebutt that is exclusive to the American small town. If that's where I ended up for my remaining reporter days, I'd have no complaints. 

Street Talk: A long-ago fire burned into memory

Fire, I would come to accept, is as cruel and indiscriminate as any force on earth. It will take without compunction a child not yet old enough to walk on his own or an old woman too infirm to save herself. 

Mark LaFlamme: Awaiting the last press run on Park Street

Street Talk: In its way, the press is the very symbol of how news is supposed to work.

Spring brings loose boats, gunfighting dickcissels

Street Talk: Potshots, potholes, public nudity and pond passion: Ahhhhhh, spring!

Street Talk: Roll up the windows, kids, we’re heading to Leeds

Street Talk: May I pet your dog and/or cat?

It's no secret that I have what is known in zoology circles — and by my own team of therapists — as dog envy. If I see a strange dog on the street, on a hiking trail, or eating from of an overturned trash can at the curb, I immediately want to play with it, giving no thought at all as to where it's been. 

A Street Talk confession: I haven’t learned about church since CCD

Before walking into a single church or making a simple phone call, I become filled with self-doubt, suddenly very vividly aware my own ignorance.