Emily Thurlow

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Mary Dunn of Amherst shared a photo of this sweet treat. “Every year, I bake cut-out cookies for the holidays — just as my mother and I, and then our son and I, did for many years. Same recipe, same enjoyment for my family during this special season.”

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More than a half-century ago, I moved to Fall River and began a job wherein, for the first time in my life, writing was the chief skill I brought to the workplace. I shared a big old Victorian house with a number of other guys. The house was so huge it had once been a funeral home.

Growing up in Putney, Vermont, Sadie Forsythe loved that every winter brought a foot or two of snow. “We didn’t see the ground for months,” said Forsythe, an Amherst-based therapist whose certification includes climate psychology, a discipline that helps to address eco-grief. Eco-grief refers to profound sadness, anxiety and despair related to witnessing or learning […]

GREENFIELD — On Monday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m., the Greenfield Garden Cinemas and Jonathan Boschen will host their fourth Fabulous 40s Film of 2026 with the 1944 film, “National Velvet.”

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1:27 The phone rang — Bright, harmless, ordinary. I answered with a smile, didn’t realize it would turn into a longlasting nightmare. Your voice — calm. Careful. Too careful. And just like that, My summer shattered. Crushed, Like glass under a careless heel All my plans scattered across the floor, Gone. “Why can’t I go […]

Northampton Jazz Festival kicks off season with documentary film screening on June 11 The Northampton Jazz Festival will kick off its 2026 festival season with a documentary film, “The Girls in the Band,” on Thursday, June 11 at 8 p.m. at Northampton Center for the Arts, located at 33 Hawley St. The 2013 film, written, […]

Full disclosure: These pieces written on health cannot possibly do justice to all of the knowledge and experience that informs decades of professional healing practice; i.e., there is a lot more to pain and pain treatment than can ever be written. We mean to help here by sharing a grossly oversimplified and incomplete — yet valid and useful — introduction to some common pain management concepts.