Connect Gloucester

07/22/2024

The 23th is the birthday of my fabulous wife and the love of my life, Carole Sharoff. A few months ago she was named a Paul Harris fellow by Rotary Club of Gloucester, a coveted honor.

09/27/2022

The courage of young Iranian women is utterly inspiring. They have been tearing off their head scarves and burning them in public, in protest at the killing in police custody of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by "morality police" for supposedly improper hijab.

Young Iranians are just sick of the repression and hypocrisy of the Iranian regime. In my visits to the country, I'm struck that young Iranians are more likely in private to drink alcohol and ignore Ramadan fasting rules than in most other Muslim countries. The brutality and corruption of Iranian leaders has just discredited the regime.

It's striking that these protests aren't just in middle class areas of Tehran, but also in the religious city of Qom and the very traditional city of Mashhad. The whole country is fed up.

The Iranian government is willing to shoot and kill, and it has managed to suppress previous protest movements. Maybe it will again. But the one thing that is utterly clear is that these young Iranians fighting for freedom are on the right side of history.

03/06/2020

These transformational retreats are beautiful and restorative. Check it out if some deep time inside with people in a beautiful place feels like just what you need right now.
Andy Hahn, Psy.D. is facilitating it with I think Joan Beckett.

May 15 – May 19, 2020

03/02/2020

Book Signing at the Common Crow - https://mailchi.mp/82e261e4efd9/book-signing-at-the-common-crow

01/14/2020

Beach message from The Vista

12/17/2019

Gift Certificates from The Vista this Holiday Season.

12/17/2019

Gift Certificates from The Vista available for the Holidays.

12/21/2016

Congrats to Barry Hodgkins, winner of the Gloucester Downtown Holiday Sweepstakes!!

Congratulations!!! Barry Hodgkin's of Gloucester picked up the $1500 shopping spree today!!! Thanks for shopping local!

03/24/2016

Great food and conversations, impromptu office hours

09/04/2015

Help Addison Gilbert Hospital Citizens Fund save our local Hospital! And have a good time doing it. Get your tix now: http://gimmelive.com/?c=60

We've just put tickets on sale for the Harvest Moon Music Festival benefit to help save Addison Gilbert Hospital. Five years after Celebrate Gloucester, top north-shore musicians once again take th...

07/18/2015

Green Energy program to be held at the Magnolia Library & Community Center