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3 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Linda Matchan
Stemkens feels compelled to spend “way too much time on Google Maps” researching the places where troops may have been in battle, or transit, or in camps. Then, he says, “I just go and see.” A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. In the forests he is laser-focused and silent, swinging his metal detector from side to side, like a priest with an incense burner during Mass. He’s on his third metal detector in six years.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
bostonglobe.com | Linda Matchan
Her name was Flower the Pony. She joined our family nearly 30 years ago on a harried weekday morning while I was making my 6-year-old daughter’s school lunch. By request, it was the same lunch every day: Peanut butter sandwich. Cookies. Apple. It was a simple but tedious routine — until the day Flower unaccountably galloped into my mind. I decided I would write and illustrate one page of a story each day and put it in Sara’s lunchbox. Like a serialized novella, but for a kid who loved bedtime stories.
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Dec 8, 2024 |
bostonglobe.com | Linda Matchan
MEDFORD — Sunday was a big day for Globe Santa. He normally keeps a low profile, serving as the quiet symbol of the Boston Globe Foundation’s 69-year-old program that raises money to buy toys and books for children in need. But once in a while he’ll venture out in public, and when he does, it will often be to Medford.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
boston.com | Linda Matchan
Community 'Tis the unequal holiday season. When parents or guardians write to Globe Santa requesting holiday gifts for their children, it's not necessarily about getting them stuff. About acquisition. It's about finding a way for their kids to feel normal, special, and appreciated, like other kids they know. "All I want is for my child to not be left behind or feel left out," writes a mother who's been a student at a community college for the past year.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
bostonglobe.com | Linda Matchan
When parents or guardians write to Globe Santa requesting holiday gifts for their children, it’s not necessarily about getting them stuff. About acquisition. It’s about finding a way for their kids to feel normal, special, and appreciated, like other kids they know. “All I want is for my child to not be left behind or feel left out,” writes a mother who’s been a student at a community college for the past year.
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