The Gulf Stream veers off somewhere near the coast of New York and makes its way to Ireland. There’s no warming stream to soften the frigid waters in the South Shore of Boston where I grew up. Even so, three little girls are in the ocean this evening playing on two blow-up rafts. One raft […]
It’s amazing how “at home” I feel at the ocean and how comfortable I can make myself when the need for refreshment comes over me. When we were kids, my friends and I wanted to live on the beach. We tried to make fire by rubbing driftwood sticks together to heat up cans of soup […]
AKA: A Magical Day We spent the day in Scituate Harbor, my sister Sherry, her husband, and I. Scituate, Massachusetts, is where part of the 1987 movie “The Witches Eastwick” was filmed. There were 3 witches in that movie, played by Michele Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, and Cher. We went into the Quarterdeck, the funky nautical […]
I visit my parents in my hometown of Hull, Massachusetts, about once a year. The room I stay in is on the 3rd floor. There are wall to wall bookcases filled with movie videos and movie posters hanging on the walls It may seem fitting for me as a writer – but it’s not exactly […]
The ocean is a natural anti-depressant. I like to walk the beach in the evening when the setting sun casts a golden glow. On this night, I found myself smiling upon seeing what I took to be a bride further on down the beach. Her white veil was blowing in the sea breezes. As I […]
I’ve been known to act like “Gidget” while watching fireworks go off. Probably because I ooh and ahh while watching them. I also like to give them names…like these: Pistachio Afro, Snap, Crackle, and Pop, Red Zinnia in a Blender, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Tinkerbell’s Migraine, The Big Bang Theory, Bling Bling, Barbie’s […]
Here, in the South Shore of Boston, every other person is proudly donned in some sort of Red Sox apparel, forks are called “fawks” and cars are “cahs,” and it’s common to spend over $1,000 a month for a 2 bedroom apartment. Here, navigating a traffic rotary, a circular grassy intersection where all points on […]
AKA: How the Knight in the Shinning Palomino Rescued the Maiden on Her Voyage Day 1. Like a reluctant bride who has cold feet the morning of her wedding, I woke up the morning I was set to embark on my solo road trip from Virginia to Massachusetts and didn’t want to go. My driving […]
The Grammy nominated song by the Black Eyed Peas, “Let’s get it started,” has been stuck in my head for the last few days, causing me to occasionally and loudly break out singing the refrain (the only line I know). I think it has something to do with the fact that I’m about to embark […]
I used to think scarecrows were ornamental and that hay bales were put there by farmers for Andrew Wyeth to paint. ~ Colleen The peninsula I grew up on, called Hull, Massachusetts, is 6 miles long and less than ½ mile wide in most places. The tip, called “Hull Village,” is where my family lived […]
Technically, the first day of summer isn’t until June 21. But who really thinks of June as a spring month? My blogger friend, Fragments Fred, recently asked his readers, “When Do You Know It’s Summer?” Although, my childhood is the source of my most vivid summer memories, some are continuous and transcend time and age… […]
