Open Letter to Former Chief John M. Kelly (Part Two)

Well, Chief, July tried to kill me. Three times. The first time it was cancer. I lay those twenty July days of terror at the feet of Erica Podgorni as it was in the immediate wake of her failure to take me up on my offer, that I was convinced I had pancreatic cancer, which, […]

Open Letter to Former Chief John M. Kelly (Part One)

Howdy, Chief, In the event you haven’t heard, I’m publishing GINNED UP again. Three years ago, when I announced that I’d be publishing my memoir about my short time on Littleton’s Board of Selectmen, you went out and got a lawyer who, before I’d published even one word, threatened to sue me (on your behalf) […]

Open Letter to Sal Lupoli

Dear Mr. Lupoli, Littleton has always been my home. I’ve lived here for my entire life, save college, my two-year Peace Corps stint, and a short time down the street in Ayer. When I think of “home,” I think of the house my parents built, which abuts two hundred twenty acres of conservation land that […]

Open Letter to Matt Pinard

Hey Matt, Months ago, when I was serving on FinComm, I’d been given to understand that you’d been unwell for a length of time. While I do hope that this open letter finds you on the mend, if you happen to still be laid-up and stuck in the house, I want to recommend to you […]

Open Letter to Ted Doucette (Part Two)

Well, Ted, I’m not surprised. And it bums me out that you decided to employ the “ignore-her” strategy to my first letter. Candidly, I was hoping you’d see my invitation to have an open talk (you and me about what happened a decade ago) as an opportunity for some soul-searching and self-reflection. Ten years is […]

Open Letter to Ted Doucette (Part One)

Dear Ted, There’s no denying the fact that these last ten years have been awkward between us. Even after that heart-to-heart we had a few years back (at Faye Park with you, me, and Rob), it seemed you still held false beliefs about what I experienced, a decade ago, working beside you on the Board […]

Is this Weird, Littleton?

Ten days after Littleton’s spring election, this guy contacted me: That’s Jim Karr. (Google didn’t have much by way of close-up images for him.) Despite the outdated photo, many Littletonians will recognize Jim as he is a former member of Littleton’s (formerly named) Board of Selectmen, a former Littleton Light and Water Commissioner, and—in case […]

I Think Many of You Will Be Happy

The offer that I extended to Erica Podgorni was time-limited. I gave her two weeks to take me up on it. I texted the link to her phone the day I published the offer. I texted the same link to her husband. The offer expired at noon today. With no reply, lawsuit it is. You […]

AMD: Day 5/Wednesday

My decision to come to Montana was supported by several signs from the universe. These include: By some miracle, I, too, received a “sign” while here that has brought meaning to my own personal “journey,” a.k.a., finally finishing my novel. My sign arrived this morning (in the form of an email) and was in reply […]

AMD: Day 4/Tuesday

I managed to find a far cheaper one-way ticket home ($157) than the one I got last minute to get to Montana ($427). Instead of flying out of Billings (45 minutes to the east with a plane change in Denver), my return flight would be out of Bozeman (2 hours west, changing planes in New […]

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