I am from Hail Mary full of grapes … midnight mass and pennies in the poor box … I’m from the unlucky luck of the Irish … the Old Sod and Southie before there were gangsters … Excerpt from “Where I’m From” by Colleen One of my goals for my recent trip home to Massachusetts […]
Hold on to your hat and Click HERE for my video contribution to the Sunday Scribblings subject of HAIR starring me and my sister Sherry.
The poem stops here The writer concedes She has written herself into a corner in a page of pawns and flawed rhymes There will be no final word to move you Post notes: Sometimes when writing poetry, cutting and editing and moving stanza lines around, a stalemate can occur. The above poem was a byproduct […]
1. Number 90 on my “100 Things about Me” says, “My energy is like a ball I’m trying to keep up. If it falls it stays down for a while.” 2. On my first day home after my twelve day trip to visit my family on Massachusetts coast, I didn’t have the strength to […]
The airplanes taking off from Boston’s Logan Airport sound like faraway thunder. But the sun is out. I can see it in between clouds reflected on the glassy wet shore where I walk with my head down. Avoiding its hazy hot glare, I step on the cool floating cumulus fluff and forget for a moment […]
In the last twelve days I’ve eaten Italian food in the North End of Boston, walked the alphabet streets of South Boston where my grandparents met and my father was born, and toured the forts on Castle Island with a tour guide who flirted with me. I took a five hour boat ride, saw seven […]
1. Clowning around 2. Best land shark singing telegram in town 3. Don’t try this at home 4. The usual suspects 5. Family resemblances 6. Life at the beach is a bowl of cherries 7. Beachcomber Photos: 1. My sister Trish struck up a conversation with a clown while waiting for our friend Nancy and […]
1. “I’m pretty much an open book with a few pages torn out.” So read a comment I left on someone’s blog entry that was inspired by the recent Sunday Scribblings prompt, “I have a secret.” 2. HERE’S what my sister and I do when we’re on vacation. We go to the hairdresser, NOT! 3. […]
1. When fireworks became illegal in Massachusetts, the people took matters into their own hands. On the night before the 4th of July something akin to The Boston Tea Party takes place up and down beaches of the north and south shores of Boston. 2. Rows of huge bonfires are set. Hordes of people come […]
No neckties. No shoes. No business men in suits. Red and purple pails splash like paint on a wash of pale blue canvas. Sherbet colored shovels lie waiting to scoop sand or dig gullies for toy boats to sail in. Toddlers waddle and wade near the shore. Giddy girls giggle at their reflections. Seawater glows […]
The Irish look within and see behind – know the heart and read the mind ~ written on a plaque in my father’s bedroom Turns out my dad had the best room in the house. In the past when I visited him and my mom I slept in the small third floor attic bedroom that […]
