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Opinion: Between bonobos and a chimp
11-10-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I recently read a mind-popping piece in the Atlantic by Melvin Konner about the evolution of early humans and primates. It’s an...

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Opinion: High brows versus low brows
11-03-2024 6:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Even if Kamala wins on Tuesday, NYT Columnist Bret Stephens asks two provocative questions: “How did Trump still get so very, very...


Opinion: We have a choice, according to Ta-Nehisi Coates (and this stone mason)
10-12-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Waking up in Portsmouth, groggily looking out the third-story window of the Airbnb where we were staying, I couldn’t believe my eyes:...


Opinion: Meditating on a bitter dock
09-14-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This is a photograph I took of a bitter dock, a common weed in New Hampshire. This one stands as a sentinel at the foot of my driveway....


Opinion: Tales of resilience
08-31-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Psychological resilience is that rare quality that enables some survivors to prosper after devastating trauma or misfortune, millstones...


Opinion: 1968: What a year it was
08-24-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. As the Democratic Convention unfurled this week in Chicago, everyone tried to compare it to the infamous 1968 convention in that city....


Opinion: Revisiting tribalism
08-17-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I had an epiphany watching Kamala Harris’s first campaign rally in Atlanta. It came to me that tribalism can be a good thing, a...


Opinion: Welcoming the Other
08-09-2024 4:00 PM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Like deja vu all over again, today’s burning issues are the same as those two generations ago. That much became apparent to me from...


Opinion: There’s something happening, it’s in the air
08-02-2024 4:00 PM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Much has been written about the transcendental nature of group experience over the centuries. Unfortunately, most of this accumulated...


Opinion: Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty
07-19-2024 6:00 PM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This birch tree is special to me. It was just a mere sapling back in 1977 when I was building my house. Marauding kids, footloose for...


Opinion: Communities have become places to escape
07-13-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Have you ever noticed your status in your local community no longer depends so much upon your behavior, character, and reputation? In...


Opinion: Returning to an ecological way of being
06-08-2024 7:30 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com I enjoyed doing the research for my gardening essay last week. It enticed me to dig deeper into the essence of gardening. I started...


Opinion: An ode to gardening
06-01-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. After finishing planting my little vegetable garden, I feel great. The rototiller gave me a better workout than the gym, and my new...


Opinion: How many ways does wood heat warm?
05-24-2024 2:22 PM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This essay is a continuation of last week’s piece questioning the value of new technology like Apple’s latest iPad. Yes, this...


Opinion: Technology and the human brain
05-18-2024 6:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com Is technology crushing human creativity? That was the question asked in the May 11 article in the Concord Monitor about a recent Apple...


Opinion: Entropy has been weighing on my mind and body
05-11-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. “Even the words that we are speaking now / thieving time has stolen away, / and nothing can return,” – Horace’s Odes, 23 BCWatching my...


Opinion: It all started at Columbia
05-04-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I need to vent about the college protests. I am beside myself, appalled at my country’s unconditional military support of Israel’s...


Opinion: Back to the future or no future at all, it’s our choice
04-13-2024 6:30 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. What would an old Yankee think? Around Jenness Pond, it used to be an April Fool’s joke to tell folks the ice was out when it wasn’t....


Opinion: Invasive political forces plundering New Hampshire
03-16-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Traditionally, New Hampshire folks have been known to be self-reliant, maybe to the extent of appearing standoffish, because of our...


Opinion: A modest proposal to save the world
03-09-2024 8:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. With our mild weather so far this year, New Hampshire has avoided calamitous climate change. Texas hasn’t been so lucky with its...


Opinion: Are we still creatures or machines?
02-25-2024 7:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. We fool ourselves by believing if only we had more facts and better technology, we could solve any problem, even climate change and,...

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