STORY OF THE WEEK: Back in the day, the approach of the end of February would signal the time for the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies – the bygone annual satiric sendup of the year in Rhode … more

By ERIN O'BRIEN It's a bit like being expectant godparent. Or perhaps arriving home to squatters. Our evergreen Christmas wreath arrived before Thanksgiving and lasted beyond St. Patrick's Day, when I finally relocated it to the back porch. It seemed to more