We all have a choice in how we spend each day. Which, let’s face it, might well be our last. BY ALISON LARKIN First posted on The Berkshire Edge – APRIL 28, 2021 In early 2019 I met and fell in love with Bhima Nitta, a brilliant, funny man from India who had left corporate America to devote his life...

While we wait for the next generation to become strong enough to lead, I think we need to be very careful who we vote into any kind of office. BY ALISON LARKIN First posted on The Berkshire Edge – MAY 27, 2020 I live in the town of Stockbridge, which isn’t exactly a metropolis, and I’m used to isolation. In...

  What: “Lovers’ Spat: Round Two.” Staged readings of scenes involving Shakespeare couples. Hosted by Allison Larkin When: Saturday evening at 7; Sunday afternoon at 2 Where: Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St., Lenox Tickets: $25; students $10 Reservations/Information: 413-637-3353; shakespeare.org By Jeffrey Borak, The Berkshire Eagle LENOX — Love, in all its wit, joy, fury, madness and glory, holds...

People ask me why I love living in The Berkshires, even in mid-winter. The answer is in my newest column in The Berkshire Edge! It’s icy cold in the Berkshires. The Stockbridge bowl has frozen over and the roads are perilous. I have to scrape the snow off my car every day now, the kids are pale and antsy from lack of...

This article first appeared in The Berkshire Edge While I have dipped in and out of the Harry Potter books and movies over the years, my interest has been mild in comparison with that of my soon-to-be fifteen-year-old daughter who has read every one at least twice and knows everything there is to know about Harry Potter. For my fifteenth...

This article first appeared in The Berkshire Edge The last time I spent the whole summer in England was a quarter of a century ago. I was in my mid-twenties and working as an actress and a playwright in London. I was just about to go on stage to play Flora Poste in the original stage version of Cold Comfort...

This article first appeared in The Berkshire Edge Stockbridge — If we were to experience the world solely through today’s social and other media, we’d be watching out for terrorists and venal politicians behind the ice-cream counter at the SoCo Creamery or lurking under water at the Stockbridge Bowl, waiting to pull us down. Every day we get to choose...

This article first appeared in The Berkshire Edge Does your heart beat extra fast these days when, despite your intention not to open the New York Times on-line until after breakfast, you do, because, like everyone around you, you can’t help yourself? And when you find out that yesterday’s drama was nothing in comparison with today’s, does the anxiety that...

This article first appeared in The Berkshire Edge Stockbridge — Although I was born in the U.S., I was adopted by Brits and raised in England. As surprising as this may sound, the British don’t study American history or American politics from an American point of view. What you call the Revolutionary War, for example, was referred to by my...