Column: Friends
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life. Their variety adds spice and joy to our lives. Cultivating friends is one of life’s greatest rewards.
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RMA Presents: “What Is Next for Connecticut’s Fastest Growing City?”
With the recent increase of 10,000 new residents, Stamford is now the second largest city in Connecticut, and is in sound financial condition, having received a triple-A bond rating. Mayor Simmons has instituted a number of new programs to improve quality of life, including safer streets, a thriving job market, beautification of parks, renovation of schools, marinas, roads, and sidewalks, and reduced environmental impact. She seeks to restore faith in local government, and is proving to be a dynamic, well spoken, intelligent, exciting young politician.
On my watch – Part II: Maryan Ainsworth tells of her choices of six favorite paintings
Retired Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator of European Paintings chooses half a dozen paintings she would like to live with and explains what their subjects meant in their own time.
Top 3 Ways to Restart Your Wellness in September
Getting back into the swing of things after a summer of flexible schedules, vacations, and excuses to drink rose can be a challenge to our internal sense of balance for all ages. As an Integrative Medicine MD who believes in the power of lifestyle, here are my top 3 ways to restart your wellness this fall.
RMA Presents: “Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography: Making the Next Generation of Computer Chips”
Continuing to pack more and more computing power into each new generation of smartphones, laptops, and the servers powering artificial intelligence requires extraordinary semiconductor chip manufacturing technology. Less than 20 miles from Greenwich, ASML in Wilton is the only producer of the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that are needed to manufacture the most advanced chips. The machine’s technology is spectacular, and MIT Technology Review has called it “the most complicated machine on the planet,” yet there are hundreds in operation at chip making factories around the world.
RMA Presents: “How Public Sentiment is Formed”
The 1930s was a critical decade in American history, during which President Franklin Roosevelt used the new power of radio to address the American “public” as a coherent entity for the first time. Pollsters such as George Gallup, Sr. and Elmo Roper developed statistically valid sampling methods to measure the “vox populi,” the voice of the people. Populists such as Huey Long and Father Coughlin also gained influence, spurring the growth of intolerance and conspiracy theories, a precursor to the troubled politics of today.
Keeping Our Kids Safe as School Begins
I am reflecting on how quickly my daughters have grown up as I prepare to drive them back to college. Even now, I still worry, as a mother's job is never done - and I make sure they are prepared for any emergencies. Learn about your school’s emergency planTake it from a mother sending her kids off to college, they certainly do grow up fast — and that is a good thing – but I will still miss them!
Back-to-School Shopping with a Purpose
In addition to shopping for supplies, clothes, and shoes, Head of School Adam Rohdie suggests a different type of back-to-school shopping, with the purpose of setting students up for success in the new school year.
Rewriting (and Editing Heavily) the Love Story
“When books are your life—or in my case, your job — you get pretty good at guessing where a story is going,” muses Nora Stephens, the cool and witty protagonist of Book Lovers, “...The details may change from book to book, but there’s nothing truly new under the sun.”
Why Local Newspapers Matter
By Congressman Jim Himes One of the most critical functions of a free press is to hold public officials – people like me –…
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