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 […]
I can’t drive through any part of my hometown of Hull (MA) without setting off a memory. They come, one right after the other, like text messages from the past dinging on my phone. That’s where my first boyfriend lived, and a girlfriend who had a really cool dollhouse lived in the house across the […]
While in my hometown of Hull visiting my family and helping out with my mother’s care, I met three (so far) brand new family members, one of which has the name of my late brother Jimmy. There were also new (first time) moms. Desmond’s mom is blogger. Check it out HERE. I call this one […]
These were taken recently at Floyd’s Villa Appalaccia Winery where I had my favorite glass of wine, Raspberry Cab. The hummingbirds were too fast for the camera. Our World Tuesday______
I found out this morning while walking the beach that my boots aren’t waterproof. It happened when I was framing a picture of some gulls in flight and wasn’t looking down at my feet or noticing the pattern of waves coming closer to the shore. I did notice that there are always joggers, dog walkers, […]
We couldn’t believe our ears. An elderly stranger stopped my sister Trish and me at the Nantasket Beach seawall and told us he had a song he wanted to sing. We agreed to hear it, but before he took us by surprise with his “Oh-bama, Oh-bama, how you can love,” refrain, to tune of ‘Oh, […]
Meeting Sophia (my sister Sherry’s grandchild). Getting a firedog bobble-head named after me by my great nephew Joshua. Taking my mom on a drive to the cemetery and listening to a Frank Sinatra CD while she sang along. Evening walks on the beach. Sunday dinner at my mother’s house. My brother Joey is a good […]
This is how close the beach town peninsula I grew up on is to Boston. Twenty-something miles south of the city but only a stone’s throw by boat. Although Hull is best known for Nantasket Beach, we grew up on Stony Beach (pictured) at the entrance to Hull Village, which is at furthest end of […]
A 95 pound bank vice-president by weekday, she needed some help reeling this one in. I think it was her first catch, and surely her first 30 inch striped bass. When I asked her what she said when she caught it, she answered, “Wow, that thing is big!” I’m glad it didn’t pull her in! […]
