The first time Faye Saxon Horton read the Book Of Esther, she was struck immediately by a certain something. It wasn’t just Esther’s strong, sometimes steely presence before king Ahasuerus as she made an appeal to save her race. Or the way she worked, grace under pressure, when her older cousin Mordecai informed her of a nefarious plot to massacre the Jews. It was the dignity with which she led by example, and the relevancy for young woman that she saw. That gut feeling that something was inherently right about it ultimately led her to write Decisions of Life: From the Book of Esther, published in 2015.
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Sharon Benzoni |
Oct 14, 2015 4:10 pm
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Joining me in the studio for a special free-form edition of “At The Moment” on WNHH radio was guest Caleb Hamptom, a traveler, writer and reader originally from Davis, California.
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Oct 7, 2015 2:22 pm
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Every man, Portuguese chef David Leite says, has an origin story, and every hog does too. In the Azores, from where his family hails, one pig will feed a family for weeks — because it has to.
Step one. Accept yourself entirely. Take the extra weight, the added baggage, the laugh lines and baggy eyes, the guilt of past mistakes, and take one good hard look at it in the mirror.
Step two. Forgive the people who have hurt you. And for goodness sakes, forgive yourself.
Step three. Heal. Heal right now and heal entirely, because you won’t be able to accomplish anything if you do.
If you have a hankering to travel back to the counter-cultural press and its close connections with Donovan, Dylan, Moon Dog and other music figures of the late 1960s, click on the audio file below for the latest episode of “This Day In New Haven History” on WNHH radio.
Fact: New Haven is a racially divided city. White and Asian-American families in the city statistically have been able to pass wealth to members hurt by the recession, while black and Hispanic families have not … because they don’t have as much wealth to pass.
Up for debate: Whether New Haveners are willing to engage in a genuine conversation about it.
City transit chief Doug Hausladen looks forward to the day when property owners to come to him asking for bus shelters, seeing them as an asset and not a liability.
In the 20 years since he began practicing law in Connecticut, Gerry Giaimo has witnessed major changes in the life of Connecticut law firms, including the closing of Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn LLP, in 2008 and the opening of Halloran & Sage’s New Haven offices in 2011.
Giaimo pressed for a New Haven office because so many of the firm’s attorneys were commuting long hours even though they lived in the New Haven area. Starting as a young associate, Giaimo, now a partner in his law firm has witnessed major changes in law firm life. The younger lawyers, he said, are trying to change entrenched habits of law firms, from work schedules, to dress codes, to a desire for a different lifestyle. All issues still in transition, he said.
José Oyola doesn’t mess around with his music. Instilled with melody and harmony from a young age, he began performing n English and Spanish early in his musical career, and has had enough success with it to be in the midst of finishing up and promoting his sophomore album, Hologram, before it debuts later this fall.
Eugene Driscoll has had a heck of a week. And it isn’t even halfway over. Monday morning, he kicked it off by breaking the news of a homicide across the WNHH airwaves, in between retelling the story of totaling his beloved PT Cruiser.
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Josiah Brown |
Sep 24, 2015 11:10 am
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The following information about the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute was contributed by the program’s Josiah Brown.
New Teacher-Developed Curricular Resources Available; Partnership Completes 38th Year, Prepares for 2016
Curriculum units that teachers from fifteen New Haven public schools developed as Fellows in four Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars in 2015 are available at this website. (http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/)
Earl Givan lives just ten minutes from the Sound School — but ends up spending a half hour to get there because he rides a CT Transit bus. Samuel Gray said he would probably do better academically at Sound if he didn’t have a 45-minute Metro North train ride every day to and from Old Saybrook.
Prompted by the death of an 8‑year-old, New Haven’s alders have urged the creation of a specific radio frequency and the hiring of more dispatchers to handle school bus medical emergencies. At least one parent advocate said more needs to be done.
Brian Henderson had a few suggestions for getting his peers to show up to school more often: changing the day’s start time to 9 a.m. or leaving kids an hour-long “open window for lateness.”
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Sep 11, 2015 10:52 am
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Seven-year-old Ramaya Glass goes to the dentist regularly and has the smile to prove it.
Some students at her school, Augusta Lewis Troup, don’t see a dentist. Yet. Starting this school year, they will have a chance at better oral health and having a smile like Ramaya’s.
