Rainy With Periods of Jazz
The first weekend in August is always the Newport Jazz Festival. 60 years ago at the first festival it [...]
Eulogy
My brother’s funeral service was last week, and a couple of people asked that I send the eulogy I [...]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
We haven’t traveled internationally for many years, with the exception of Mexico or the Caribbean, which at this point [...]
Making a Difference
I am an armchair activist. I’ll write letters, make donations and sign pledges, but as far as actually going [...]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. David Lord
This blog may be difficult for some of you to read. If you choose to go on please know [...]
Coffee Pot’s on Fire
Sometimes there are people in our lives that we’ve known for a long time, but really have never gotten [...]
A Hole In The Water Into Which You Pour Money
…Is one way to define a boat. We have an older model O’Day sailboat (which is no longer made) [...]
Happy Realizations
The winter was so bad this year that I really thought we had lost several perennials in our yard. [...]
Et Tu, Maggie?
It has been an eventful (read busy) two weeks since we returned from Greece. As I wrote this I [...]
The Charles W. Morgan Leaves New Bedford. Again.
There has been a tremendous spotlight shown on the city of New Bedford these past few weeks with the [...]