Everyone loves Halloween – especially two groups: Kids and candy manufacturers. But here’s a horrifying reality: More than any other day of the year, children are more than twice as likely to be hit by or killed by a motor vehicle (car, truck, SUV, or whatever) on Halloween. In 2017,…
I don’t know how many of my readers were aware of this at the time it happened, but five months ago, last February 2018, two Needham High School students were killed when two separate vehicle drivers hit both students as they were walking across Webster Street, in the town just…
The media has been doing a lot of broadcasting and publishing recently – very justifiably – on the subject of the Massachusetts Legislature’s shameful failure to act promptly in passing a revised distracted driving bill in this state. In the meantime, the lives of millions of drivers on the roads…
I’m posting this very brief piece on Thanksgiving Day, a day I wouldn’t normally be working. But as I was thinking last night of all that I have in this life – many things that others less fortunate than I don’t have – the idea of loss struck home as…