Kate Tuttle

Kate Tuttle is a freelance writer and the author of the Boston Globe's Short Takes column.

You're a Creepy One, Elf on the Shelf

You're a Creepy One, Elf on the Shelf

An enumeration of everything that's wrong with the holiday toy More »

Boy Scouts Are From Mars, Girl Scouts Are From Venus

Boy Scouts Are From Mars, Girl Scouts Are From Venus

Behind the khaki uniforms and the merit badges, the two organizations have vastly different political leanings. More »

School Bullying: From Civil Rights to Gay Rights, It Gets Better, Slowly

School Bullying: From Civil Rights to Gay Rights, It Gets Better, Slowly

The story of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School, shows that societal change comes at great personal cost More »

The 'Walden' Effect: Tracing the Myth of the Man Alone in the Wilderness

The 'Walden' Effect: Tracing the Myth of the Man Alone in the Wilderness

From Jesus to Thoreau to Chris McCandless, culture is full of stories about men who take solitary sojourns in nature. Why do we find them so fascinating? Broadway In 1930 Everett Ruess left his Los Angeles home and began a series of solitary wanderings through the Southwest. Just 16 and still in high school, accompanied mostly by burros, once by horses, and briefly by a dog he named Curly, Everett hiked throughout the mesas and canyons, a landscape he sketched,… More »

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