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 handsome Bobby Orr gave me his autograph at the now-defunct Boston Garden). Everyone who grew up in Massachusetts knew the drill. Yeah, they were…
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 good neighborhood map). While John was doing that, I took Ben to the Boston Museum of Science (we used to call it the “Boston Science…
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, and afterward was the keynote speaker at the Catholic Lawyers’ Guild luncheon. A special mass for lawyers and politicians? Isn’t that a sign…