From the South Main Café to The Pine Tavern, and now Dogtown Roadhouse. We’ve been following The KIND since 1988, and it never ceases to be our happy place. It’s a sing-along dance-together Grateful Dead party with all the right ingredients. Great music, lights, jams, atmosphere and community. We drop our burdens and lose our […]
1. I call the below Wavy Gravy. 2. And below is Nantasket Beach from the Nantasket Beach Resort Penthouse. 3. When I stayed with my sister in Massachusetts we swam in her community pool. One day we went and it was closed, so we went into the community rec room to ask about it. A […]
It was a joyful meeting of first cousins-once-removed that we never knew we had, until DNA results at Ancestry dot com revealed our mutual history. The meet-up was a lively one with several conversations going on at once. Someone joked to the waitress that it was a board meeting, and I imagine we were entertaining […]
_______Wordless Wednesday_ Can you understand these Boston accents HERE?
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 […]
