Biz Stone, tech-nik, blogger, and author of “Who Let the Blogs Out,” hung out at Nantasket Beach, the beach of my hometown peninsula, Hull, Massachusetts. In the first chapter of his book, while describing how he and a friend started the web hosting site, “Xanga,” Stone writes: “We hung out after school, we went to […]
Redman and Mitchell family, Hull Village Reunion, 2004 This time last year, I was in Massachusetts attending the Hull Village Reunion, which was held on Memorial Day, right after the town parade. The reunion was conceived and planned by Betty Ann, the daughter of the funeral parlor limousine driver who drove for my brother’s funerals […]
I am from a granite boulder seawall and cotton candy at Paragon Park I’m from blackberry stains and beach rose petals catalpa beans and bamboo I grew up on a peninsula in an amusement park town. A lighthouse and a roller coaster are the unforgettable hometown landmarks that are forever etched in my memory. […]
I’m from my grandmother’s picnic basket sleeping on curlers in baby doll pajamas kerchiefs and bobby socks..hoola hoops and the twist Dear Diary today is Friday… I’m standing on the wall of Fort Revere in my hometown of Hull, Massachusetts. It used to be covered in graffiti. The ocean is to my left, the […]
I am from my father’s eyes after he saw the holocaust at Buchenwald and the nape of my mother’s neck where white pearls hung before her thyroid surgery… It’s Never Too Late I regret that when I was in high school, I never wore my hair in a ponytail. I wanted to. I wanted to […]
I’m from ice skates and alphabet streets jump ropes and black and white TV… This is the photo that was meant to be posted with the “Where I’m From” entry last week, but my computer was ill and wouldn’t upload. It’s still not fixed but the symptoms have gone dormant. Can a computer fix itself? […]
“We are born in a certain time and a certain place and like vintage wines we retain the flavor of our origins.” ~ Carl Jung “Where I’m From” is inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name, from the book “Where I’m From, Where Poetry Comes From.” I first learned of it from […]
My first blog was born on March 12, 2005. Five days later it took its first step. With the help of my friend, Doug Thompson, I have moved on to another server, faster and easier to use, I am told. Coincidently, on the day my blog was being set up at this new location, the […]
