Kiss Me Twice – Memorial Day Repost

Kiss Me Twice – Memorial Day Repost

A FAVORITE MEMORY 1946 – The war was over. We were going to see our own soldier again – far across the globe in a distant land. Behind a giant Vee-spray of water our MATS transport ship had muscled the Pacific Ocean out of its way, till three weeks out of San...
Beauty Goes Up In Smoke

Beauty Goes Up In Smoke

BEAUTY GOES UP IN SMOKE And a way of life is gone. Our home for ten years, a crazy white elephant purchase on a hill looking at Boston fifty miles in the distance, is gone. The flames reached into the overcast, illuminating the township for miles around. Mother Nature...
Carine’s Wedding

Carine’s Wedding

La Belle Ann, La Belle Carine In the little picturesque town of Princeton, MA, live a delightful pot pourri of citizens, a cross section of the globe, even. The town sits high on the hip of a monadnock in central Massachusetts. We lived there for many years, raising...
Bobby of the Alameda

Bobby of the Alameda

Mexico –  a complex culture of family, friends, and connections. Its warm and charming people gather happily to chat and share, most times in the plazas.  One such locus, Alamos’ Plaza de la Alameda, is a bustling center complete with bandstand for music.  In...
Coincidences Strange and Wonderful

Coincidences Strange and Wonderful

Coincidences, Strange and Wonderful Several years ago, our flying adventures propelled us to the artsy, picturesque Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. In those days it was still quite authentically, culturally Mexican, with all of the country’s flavor and charm...
Tis The Season to Be Jolly – or  not

Tis The Season to Be Jolly – or not

  It goes like this. The Devil has a garage sale. The crowd is interested but not big. He isn’t, after all, too popular. I stop in, against my better judgement. Curiosity nudging me along, I peer and poke over the collection of old tools – a trowel, a broken car part...