My brother Joey and his wife Nancy are in town. Joey, like the rest of the Redmans, loves to dance, so I was happy to share our town of Floyd with him where there are so many opportunities to dance! It was a Small Town Summer night but the free park event got moved into […]
1. “I feel like an island.” That’s what I said to Joe when we were in Massachusetts and I looked at a picture of the Redman siblings that was taken at our niece’s wedding. 2. We used to be 9 but now we are 6. I was the third oldest before we lost our two […]
“You spend the first part of your life collecting things and the second half getting rid of them.” Isabel Allende I’ve always been a documenter. I have dozens and dozens of photo albums that I started keeping in the ‘70s. Most are the bulky magnetic self-stick 3-ring albums, but once they collected and started to […]
When I went to Ireland in 1997 to visit my grandmother’s hometown, I learned more about myself there than I could have in 10 years of psycho-therapy. The majority of the Irish people I met reminded me of my own family. I saw the faces of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and siblings in their faces. […]
I grew up in amusement park town, so going to the Marshfield Fair while in my home state of Massachusetts was like a homecoming. I have so many memories of the Paragon Park of my childhood but it was closed and torn down in 1984. One of my claim to fames is that in all […]
I Came for the Brides I Came for the Family I Came for the DancingI Came for the Beer I Came for the Cake I Came for the Laughs I Came for the Healing I Came for the Loving I Came for Those Who Couldn’t It was the right wedding. One that renewed my faith […]
This is the restaurant in Hingham, Massachusetts where my sister Kathy and her husband Ozzie met. Kathy was a waitress there, back when it was called Ye Olde Mill Grille. They were both single parents with young daughters the same age at the time. My mother worked for decades as a waitress at the Grille, […]
Walking to the A Street pier in Hull at sunset, Joe and I could see inside the windows of people’s houses as we passed. The most obvious thing we noticed was that everyone had the Patriots game on TV. Like the Red Sox, the Patriots are in the DNA of almost everyone in Massachusetts. We […]
The Crew Cut Crowd. The Wild Ones. The picture in which I call Franklin “Lancelot” and he shows me that he’s strong enough to lift a chair. The Sistahs! The Gamblers. Sophia and her Barbie Mermaid Bubble Blower. Father and Daughter. Mother and Son. The Hostess with the Mostest, our brother Joey (on the right) […]
Everything’s better on a boat. The beer and snacks taste better And the lounging feels more luxurious. The views are better. Even the sunshine feels better on the boat. And the music makes you want to get up and dance. __________Our World Tuesday
It was worth it to catch a ride to Roanoke from a friend who got a speeding ticket on the way, to fly from Roanoke to LaGuardia where I almost missed the plane and then lost my boarding pass, to go from LaGuardia to Logan where I got picked up by my sister and her […]
I didn’t have a chance to see the Lego sculpture show in Faneuil Marketplace in Boston while recently visiting my family in Hull (22 miles south of Boston), but I did see some striking graffiti art in the old forts by the house I grew up in Hull Village. It was like taking in a private art […]
