Literary Critics Among Us
Writers have writer friends. It’s not that we are clannish. More often than not we are quiet in social situations. Until a group of us get together and then, well, […]
Catawampus Craving
One of the things you gain in relationships is new lexicon–unless the person grew up with an identical background, region, dialect–family idioms and personal idiosyncrasies all make conversations bloom. E-communication has dumbed […]
Click those ruby slippers
Easter meant new patent leather shoes. The choices were black or white–but white was mostly the option for the ritualized First Communion ceremony where six year olds dress like tiny brides. […]
My Wild Life
Wild life = exciting activities vs Wildlife = undomesticated animals. And sometimes they intersect in my life in the wilds of Massachusetts. For many years, living in New Haven, Connecticut, wildlife was […]
Bringing Home the Peeps
Driving along Rt 119, I passed this sign outside our local Agway. It immediately sent me back to days of spring rides home from Agway, on the broad backseat of the family […]
Stones On the Heart
Prime time television cop shows are filled with it. Massachusetts’ Senator Scott Brown recently took to the airwaves about it. When a family friend posted on Facebook this week that he […]