Matthew Hurley

The haunting images of April 15, 2013 have begun to resonate once again as Boston prepares for this year’s marathon.  Yet despite the sorrow that still brings a tear to the eye when we remember Krystle Campbell, Martin William Richard, Lingzi Lu and police officer Sean Collier, who died that day as …

As the holiday rush rolls along and corporate America continues to squeeze away the meaning of the season in pursuit of the all mighty dollar, Thanksgiving remains a beacon of familial comfort. Christmas decorations began infiltrating shopping malls as early as October, in the process diluting the …

“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.” Charles M. Schulz on his two most popular characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.  On February 12, 2000 Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, died in his …

It’s an alarming statistic. One that resonates all year long but takes on added significance during the month of October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month. One in eight women, or 12.7% of all women, will get breast cancer in her lifetime. Those numbers would indicate the very real probability that …

9/11 has, of course, become a date ingrained in our memory. It was the day a younger generation of people finally understood what December 7th 1941 truly meant to our grandparents and our parents. Such epic tragedy seemed impossible to a collective who grew up on MTV and such innocuous yet fun …

There’s nothing quite like being a baseball fan.  The sights, the sounds and the smell of the ballpark can hook a young kid instantly.  And rooting for the home team becomes a family tradition. For those of us who have had our nervous systems tested by the Boston Red Sox, the 2004 title winning …