Tell Me a Story

I look at pics posted online ( Dirty Old Boston ) and think “ oh, that looks like a million years ago ” only to read the caption stating it’...

Childhood is a race. Endure, learn and survive—that’s what it was all about—for me anyway. I don’t remember my first grade teacher at St. Br...

This question popped up on one of my social media feeds the other day. The answer, to my mind, is that it entirely depends on your circumsta...

This is a post from another lifetime. I had these imaginings seven full years ago. In that stretch my rear view mirror's witnessed ...

My friend Michal wrote me, bemoaning the passing of this custom. From about 15 on you collected things that you would need when you s...

More or less now with The Green Miles Then Now-ish with Helen Yes, it’s my birthday and, frankly and truly, the number stuns me...

That’s what we are, particularly at this time of year and ESPECIALLY today. Christ on a Master Card, the onslaught of catalogues began ear...

I’ve recently met not one but TWO people who knew my beloved, departed-way-too-fucking-soon Kevin Alexander Scott . It’s been 24 years si...

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much mo...

Fairy tale-like house on the flat of the Hill A wee magical house for elves Between my doc visits on Tuesday I took a stroll around...

So why, seeing as we were mated for life like so many angel fish and black vultures , did The Amazing Bob and I finally go all l...

Today is the anniversary of when The Amazing Bob and I finally tied the knot, did the deed, took on the shackles of  matrimony, stopped g...

It was the summer of 1964, just a bit before my sixth birthday. We, my parents, my older sister and I were in New Haven visiting my mothe...

I fell into my first job, at the tender-ish age of 15, in the summer of 1974. The gig? Candy girl at the Manos theater. It was a big old ...

What does your satin, rhinestone and lace trimmed sash say? Are you Ms./Mr. Director of Technology 2013? Senior Graphic Designer? E...