I missed National Lightning* Safety Week last week (oh no!) but I’m stretching it out through now. According to the lightning experts, possible (and terrible!) symptoms after being hit by lightening are memory loss, attention deficits, sleep disorders, chronic pain, numbness, dizziness, stiffness in joints, irritability, fatigue, weakness, muscle spasms, depression, and more. So it’s… Continue reading Lightning kills. Be safe.
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How wearing a helmet saved me, twice.
SCENARIO 1 Setting: A lovely spring day in 2007 in Somerville, MA Where I was going: To volunteer, and I had traveled the bike route many times. What else you need to know: Cambridge/Somerville/Boston all have narrow roads that narrow even more more and are quite dangerous with any construction at all. On Somerville Avenue,… Continue reading How wearing a helmet saved me, twice.
Louder Than Words of the Day: A Westport Junior High student named Alye Pollack, who says she’s been bullied every day since the sixth grade, has taken to YouTube to express her misery by remaining poignantly silent. In “Words are worse than Sticks and Stones,” a video reminiscent of the visuals for Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick… Continue reading
Jen Bokoff 