On a recent trip back to Boston for the Thanksgiving holiday, I paid a visit to the North End Library on Parmenter Street to play mah jongg. I had read about the weekly Thursday game on a North End Waterfront post. As anyone who plays mah jongg knows, it is a very addictive game. It Read More…
Two weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in US history, my husband Ron, our son Matt and I were at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to watch the first game between the Boston Bruins and the newly franchised Golden Knights. In April 2013 when we were still living in Massachusetts, we happened to be in Read More…
On my recent visit back to the North End I just had to go to I AM Books in North Square and buy a copy of Jane Healey’s book, “The Saturday Evening Girls Club.” Based on actual facts it is a fictionalized account of four young immigrant women living in the North End in the Read More…
I went back to my roots last week. I had to escape the heat of the desert Southwest. I had to feel an ocean breeze. I had to return to my childhood home. I needed to experience again the sights and sounds and smells of the North End. I had to replenish my spirit. I Read More…
When I was a child growing up in the North End, the streets were my playground. We didn’t have specially designed play spaces with eco-friendly, non-toxic equipment made from recycled materials. The turf we played on was concrete and asphalt and brick. If we wanted to see some grass, we went to Sly Park. Or Read More…
My father spoke to me from the grave today. I was in the garage looking through old family pictures that were stored in a box and long ago forgotten. Amongst the mostly black and white pictures was an envelope containing letters and telegrams that my father had sent to me when I was a baby. Read More…
Whenever I think of my sixth grade class at the Eliot School, I am reminded of the 1982 movie “My Favorite Year.” It’s a story about a young writer intern who is tasked with chaperoning an alcoholic swashbuckling actor in the week before his appearance on a live TV show. Peter O’Toole is Alan Swann, Read More…