"I only know what I read in the newspapers"

Columns (written for the Barrington (R.I.) Times

• Barrington Man Buys Car
  
• Christmas Lemons -- ever get one of these duds? (12/12/01)
  
• The age of non-security -- Face-recognition systems come in handy when buying salami
  
• Green grows the grass -- " I hope my wife doesn't read this column...." (6/1/01)
  
• Keeping the devil from the door -- "Knew a guy named Don, had the same first name as me." (4/2/01)
  
• 50 years of hell -- only the dedicated could survive this (1/19/01)
  
• The Christmas baby -- "Everyone has a favorite Christmas story. This one is mine..." (12/20/00)
  
• Is it me or the rest of the planet? (11/14/00)
  
• Standing at the brink (9/11/00)
  
• Big tobacco's war: No sympathy, no surrender (8/16/00)
  
• Writing in the year 2000 (7/14/00)
  
• The second chance we rarely get (6/21/00)
  
• When government fails there's always the people (6/1/00)
  
• Three weddings -- and a couple of funerals (4/11/00)
  
• How to spend your anniversary behind bars (3/5/00)
  
• Jewels in the junkyard (2/7/00)
  
• Where you came from; what you've done (1/20/00)
  
• The sound of silence in a sea of noise (1/12/00)
  
• The dogs of Christmas (12/10/99)
  
• My favorite Don Smith story (11/12/99)
  
• Security was a green Oldsmobile (9/24/99)
  
• Remembering a father who wasn't always there (7/14/99)
  
• Answers, answers, but where are the questions? (4/16/99)
  
• For the Love of the Game .
  
• Does Anybody Here Remember Jim Croce?
  
• Once Upon a Christmas Dreary
  
• Gentleman Joe -- Paterno, that is.
  
• The Hippie Killer -- My life and times with "the Unicorn," Ira Einhorn
  
• The Town that Bean Built