This is a snow story. It starts out sounding like a summer fun story. But trust me: this is a snow story… Have you ever had one of those times when something was supposed to be really straightforward and easy, but then it turned into… an experience? Several years ago, Brian and I realized we…
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Suprise Me
Just One Night On The Boat: A Snow Story
Prompted By Snow
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This is a snow story. It starts out sounding like a summer fun story. But trust me: this is a snow story… Have you ever had one of those times when something was supposed to be really straightforward and easy, but then it turned into… an experience? Several years ago, Brian and I realized we…
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The Tumultuous Era – Abrupt Awakenings
Prompted By A Year in the Life
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"The Cops are coming, the cops are coming" - what were the conditions in the late 60's that inspired the take over and occupation of Harvard University's administration building?
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In Harm’s Way
Prompted By Fame
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Until her death ten years ago, we lived a few blocks away from Patricia Neal in downtown Edgartown, where she had been been a fixture for years. She often sat on her front porch and was pleased to say “good morning” to all who passed by. But the “Martha’s Vineyard way” was to not impose…
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The Sunday Paper
Prompted By Newspapers
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Still, on a quiet Sunday there is nothing more relaxing than working my way through that pile of newspapers.
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The Car That Smelled Like California
Prompted By My First Car
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The case of wine slid across the carpet and the bottles fell out. With a crash, one broke.
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Homemade Wearables
Prompted By What We Wore
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There was a time when I unleashed my creativity and started making stuff cause what I wanted to wear was not available in stores. It caused me to dabble in all sorts of crafts. For starters there was leatherwork.There’s a certain confidence gained when you make your own shoes. Just get some materials, trace your…
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Teaching my Grandkids to Make Good Trouble
Prompted By Good Trouble
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My message to my grandkids and their peers is to stand up for what you believe in and then to go out and make some noise. I will always be proud of you for any “good trouble” you create along the way.
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A culinary endurance story
Prompted By What We Ate
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Being from an Italian Family was well…… a culinary journey and a eating endurance contest. I grew up in a what was called as tenament in Fall River, Massachusetts. If you do not know what that is, it is simply a duplex stacked one on the other. We lived above my grandparents until I was…
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And in the End
Prompted By Beatles vs Stones
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The Beatles break-up began in 1969, the year I graduated from high school. I wished it weren’t so, but it was inevitable that they would go their separate ways, just as it was inevitable that high school would end, and everything would change.
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Father’s Day: What I Remember
Prompted By Father's Day
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