On Christmas Day, a suicide bomber in Nashville destroyed a city block and injured eight people. While his motivation is unclear, those close to the bomber say that he’d gone down the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole, accepting as true some of the outrageous fabrications that zip around the internet. Not even…

By Jim Correale When I showed up at Suffolk Superior Court in downtown Boston for jury duty in March, I was pretty sure I’d be selected for a spot on a jury. …

Originally published in the East Boston Sun Transcript on June 29, 2001. Summer arrived last week, officially ushering us into the season of beaches, barbecues and outdoor recreation. …

Use your position as intended on Dec. 19 — and save America To ensure that the person elected President of the United States would be competent, free from corruption and demagoguery, and not unduly influenced by another country, this nation’s founders prescribed a system in which “a small number of…

My little visit to Virginia’s Twin Oaks — By Jim Correale On a Thursday evening in the summer of 2001, with dark coming down hard and the rain coming down harder, I drove away from the Twin Oaks Community and found the CVS in the nearby town of Louisa. Inside, I purchased a 16-ounce Coca-Cola and a box…

Originally published in the Portland Press Herald in December, 2004. By Jim Correale In the fallout since election day it has often been said that many who chose to re-elect President Bush voted “against their economic self-interests.” Karl Rove and Co., the thinking goes, convinced a majority of the electorate…

By Jim Correale My first encounter with Little League Baseball was rather underwhelming. In the early 1970s a friend took me along to a tryout at a dusty field in East Boston. The equipment was makeshift, the coaches weren’t very engaging and the sun was hot. I didn’t go back. …

Concussions are more serious than previously thought Originally published in the newspapers of Current Publishing in southern Maine in October, 2005. On the opening kickoff of the Westbrook High School football team’s scrimmage against Massabesic in late August, Anthony Cook charged down the field in pursuit of the opposing kick…

Steve Vowell survives Katrina and takes over Westbrook softball Originally published in the Westbrook, Maine, American Journal in March, 2006. By Jim Correale Steve Vowell says that he was “a little materialistic” before August 29 of last year. That was the day the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina rolled into…