Loose Leaf Notes

1. The Yin Yang of Flip Flops 2. Don’t Drink and Drive 3. Achoo and God Bless You 4. Time to Catch a Ride Video: Chasing Sandpipers on Nantasket Beach HERE.

What can top a Boston Swan Boat Ride? How about an all you can eat Lobster dinner? This one was caught and is being cooked by my fisherman brother Johnny. John thinks the green tomalley (liver) is the best part. “What are these little red things? Are they eggs? I thought caviar was black,” I […]

In this day of theme parks with rides like the Tower of Terror and Disney mouse and duck characters posing for photo-ops, I’m relieved there are still parks where real ducks can be fed and where you can ride around a weeping willow lined lagoon on a peddle boat with a giant swan on it. […]

1. You know you’re having a hometown vacation when you’re riding your mother’s neighbor’s bike and someone stops you on the street to ask where the library is and you actually know. 2. I get such a boost from my sunset walks at the ocean that when I get ready to take one I tell […]

1. You take time to stop and smell the beach roses. 2. You have a red bike for chasing the sunset from the ocean to the bay. 3. You spend time with your mother and sisters. 4. And your other sister who is missing from the above picture and who wears an H on her […]

One is a General in the Marines, another is a massage therapist. Two are hairdressers and about four are Vietnam Vets. There is a salesman, a store owner, and a professional dancer who came all the way from Spain. The thing I like most about the Hull High Class of ‘68 is that most of […]

The beach is my new religion. Baptized in the ocean’s holy water, I worship at sunset under a big sky. At the shoreline I’m humbled, in the name of the sand, sun, and sea. Post note: The sandpipers were too hard to videotape so I made a movie of THIS.

New York City from the sky in broad daylight looks like the set of a Science Fiction movie. The island of concrete skyscrapers looming up from the earth at various heights is three times as wide as Boston and reminds me of a giant Giant’s Causeway, like the one in Northern Ireland. I find myself […]