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By B. Elwin Sherman Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Sometimes it takes guts to be a traveling male nurse. There I was: a New Hampshire traveling male nurse working temporarily in Arizona and visiting Aldo, a brusque, nonagenarian male patient living permanently in a ramshackle house trailer outside Tucson. A "nonagenarian" is a person who has reached 90-plus years of age. He was brusque because it's impossible to pass nine decades in this life without some crusty in your character, and Aldo was so crusty that if he'd been 10 years older or younger, he'd have looked the same. We argued all things indigenous to his Grand Canyon State and to my Granite one.They weren't really arguments. One doesn't win arguments with a 94-year old man, not if one is as smart as one thinks one is. When I arrived he was hunched over on his front porch, sitting on two stacked milk crates, cleaning catfish and dropping the innards into buckets, sorting them by their edible hierarchy.


Last Laugh

NH Magazine Weighting for Validation
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Bring back the scales at the gym. During New Year's Resolution time last year, I was lured in by a bright purple sales pitch from …
NH Magazine Take This, Please: The Yankee Swap
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Choose wisely or you might get a moose that poops jelly beans. Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus-for-the-Rest-of-Us, or my favorite, National Fruitcake Day, …
NH Magazine Missing Markers
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
At least it's better than you can't get there from here. Person from Away: "How do I get to John and Mary Smith's house?" New …

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Capitol Offenses

NH Magazine Representative Democracy?
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
One myth is that most people in New Hampshire know their state reps. This is from a miscalculated belief that if you add politics as …
NH Magazine Resolutions for Both Sides
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Because it's party time for NH politics. 'Tis the season for New Year's resolutions. With 2012 being an election year it's also appropriate to pause …
NH Magazine Occupy This: Why protests in the Granite State are fewer and farther between
Thursday, December 1, 2011
To anyone who doesn't remember the Great Depression, the past few years have indeed been scary economically. The housing collapse wiped out billions of American …

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Features

NH Magazine The Garden of Eaten
Thursday, September 1, 2011
MEMORIAL DAY All five 4 x 8 vegetable boxes have been planted: two near the house in one garden and three at the edge of …
NH Magazine Born to be Mild
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Our on-the-scene correspondent rode in to the Weirs atop a metal machine that throbbed with the power of two horses and 49 screaming CCs. By …

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Editor's Note

NH Magazine Dream With Me
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
I'd start this note with 'twas the night before Christmas but that sounds so 2011. Still, That's when plans for this February issue took a …
Year: New, Happy
Sunday, January 1, 2012
What good's permitting some prophet of doom to wipe every smile away? Resolve to make the most of civilization's last days. Unless you've been living …
Local Angels Redux
Thursday, December 1, 2011
You've got to love a holiday that produces its own fresh stream of music every year. And if that was your only standard by which …

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Letters

NH Magazine Letters to the Editor
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Need a good reason to spot the newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a $50 gift certificate to any Fratello's (in …
Letters to the Editor
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Need a Good Reason to Spot the Newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a basket of spice blends from Healthy Solutions …
Letters to the Editor
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Need A Good Reason to Spot the Newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a pair of hand-woven North Star bead ornaments …

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