Archive for the ‘Massachusetts’ Category
Perfect
“That’s what I miss,” my friend at work said a couple weeks ago. I recalled this while driving west on the Mass Pike toward I-84 South. “What’s that?” I had asked, noticing he was reminiscing in a slightly uncharacteristic way. He was not one to romanticize the past, as I do in almost every [...]
Filed under: car travel, children, dreams, family, Friends, joy, Love, Massachusetts | 1 Comment
Got moxie?
I like the word “moxie.” Like, “she’s got moxie.” Wikipedia, the source of all knowledge, cites that Moxie is considered to be the USA’s first mass-produced soft drink, dating back to 1876, and created by a man who worked in nearby Lowell, Massachusetts. I believe the first time I heard the word used it came [...]
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Porcelain piranha
If you drive along Route 114 toward Marblehead and then turn off on Ocean Avenue/MA-129, you’ll pass Tuckers Beach on your right, and usually along the seawall facing southeast on the Atlantic are joggers getting a better view of things. A left on Harbor Avenue and then a left fork leads you up a hill, and [...]
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Yankee times
Now with 11 days remaining until I start the new job in NYC, I have started a list of “Things I will remember about New England”: 1. Practicing koine Greek vocabulary for class while sitting on Singing Beach in Manchester, with Carter as an infant in his car seat under a multi-colored umbrella. 2. Apple [...]
Filed under: Boston, children, Episcopal Church, faith, family, food, home life, Manhattan, Massachusetts, parenting, surfing | 1 Comment
נְשָׁמָה
There was a time when, as a five-year-old, I would make mud pies in Central Park for the two old Jewish men who used to sit on the rotting green park bench and kvetch and feed the pigeons with dried bread crumbs, and I made one once with pieces of colored glass sticking out of [...]
Filed under: Central Park, children, family, Fire Island, Friends, Jesus, Judaism, Manhattan, Massachusetts, Nevski Prospekt, parenting, Point O' Woods, prom, surfing, Upper East Side | 2 Comments
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