Oct
29
Oh YEAH. The Red Sox won the World Series!
I may be living in Georgia, but the Red Sox as icon is in the blood of this Massachusetts woman.
I’m thinking that they must inject something in Massachusetts babies.
I have absolutely no interest in any other sport or any other team (well, not since that [...]
Oct
06
After Aletta’s wedding, I drove to Foxboro, Mass. to see my college and post-college roomie Maria.
And I’m an idiot. I didn’t take her picture. That was a big mistake, since she looked fantastic. I do have a photo from last November, though:
We sat up and talked for a little while and then I settled into [...]
Nov
30
We were late getting into Longmeadow. My brother Roy, wife Patty, and son Dylan had already been there for a few hours. It was so great to be able to spend some time with them. We rarely get to see one another anymore. Dylan was so totally adorable - he’s such a perfect mix of [...]
Nov
28
We drove into Cambridge so that John could hand-deliver his manuscript to The MIT Press. I was still printing out the monster - almost 900 pages of it - at 3 a.m. the night (morning) before we left Atlanta. He went out to lunch with his editor (who was kind enough to lend me a [...]
Mar
28
So Supreme Court Justice Scalia made a “Sicilian” gesture toward anyone who might question his impartiality on issues involving the separation of church and state -this as he was leaving a mass in Boston.
But this was not just any mass.
He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, [...]