TOP TEN POSTS ABOUT LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS * * * NUMBER TWO: Click to read: “Beat that Bitch” * * * This post was published in May 2016, three years after I’d been elected to serve on Littleton’s Board of Selectmen. The sickening scene on Littleton’s Common—recounted in the post—really was a harbinger of what my […]

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* * * NUMBER THREE: Click to LISTEN: No One Wants to Talk about the Rape * * * Tomorrow: #2, the harbinger I was unwilling to accept * * *

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* * * NUMBER FOUR: Click to read: Epilogue: The Fallout * * * After seven years of rumors and falsehoods, I decided to publish my memoir, recounting my time on Littleton’s Board of Selectmen. The first episode was published in July 2021; the last, AKA, Number Four in this Top Ten Countdown, was published […]

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* * * NUMBER FIVE: Click to read: Dispatch 1: The Kings of Cannabis * * * Over the last year or so, I’ve watched this August 2023 post get intermittent bursts of interest, and I’d wondered who might be behind those numbers. Then, a few months ago, a lawyer from the other side of […]

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TOP TEN POSTS ABOUT LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS * * * NUMBER SIX: Click to read: The “Nothing to See for Now” LCC * * * In the spring of 2025, I ran for a seat on Littleton’s Select Board, primarily to put into the permanent public record the undisputed fact that Littleton had memorialized a rapist […]

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TOP TEN POSTS ABOUT LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS * * * NUMBER SEVEN: Click to read: It’s Time to Call in the Feds, Littleton * * * The fact that this post is the seventh most popular does not shock me. What has taken me by surprise is the lack of outrage. My research into the cannabis […]

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TOP TEN POSTS ABOUT LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS * * * NUMBER EIGHT: Click to read: Why Reward Bad Behavior, Littleton? * * * From November 2023 until March 2024, I wrote about the cannabis industry in Littleton: the business people, the politicians, the money, the shady behavior, the residents’ concerns being ignored, and the sad consequences […]

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TOP TEN POSTS ABOUT LITTLETON, MASSACHUSETTS * * * NUMBER NINE: Click to read: Is this Weird, Littleton? * * * Of all the people I spent time with in town, Jim Karr was by far my least favorite to be around. From the start, Karr and others made it clear that I was not […]

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A month from now, I will no longer call myself a resident of my hometown of Littleton, Massachusetts, where I’ve lived practically my entire life in the house my parents built with their own hands. There are many factors contributing to this late midlife uprooting, though the primary one is lack of community, and it […]

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