I went to see Harry and the Potters at our rockin’ library green in downtown Springfield the other day. They are so groovy. It was a great show. They are coming out with a new album—”The Power of Love”—and I can’t wait. As it is, since buying their CD “Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock” at […]
There’s been a lot of rain around us lately, but we managed to slip in a hike to Holyoke’s Mt. Tom over the weekend. Not one of southern New England’s most stunning peaks by far, it affords a nice challenging four-mile-plus round trip to the top and back. It’s very steep to start out, with […]
I took my kids out to get soft-serve ice cream cones, in mid-day blistering heat, as a reward for my daughter’s endurance (and struggle with such endurance, thus her siblings’ likewise tolerance) of her second blood draw in a week.
It’s a school day, so everyone else at her school is enduring the heat and humidity […]
In my dream last night, my father was actor/comedian Robin Williams. In a teary-eyed burst of emotion, he confessed to me how emotionally distant he had been all my life, and I hugged him close as he bawled into my shoulder.
My thoughts as he cried were: how did I never know Robin Williams was my […]
My cousin and his band, Tapes ‘n Tapes, are touring the east coast this month. Monday night, they’ll perform at hipster hot spot the Middle East in Cambridge. They also got a write-up in today’s Boston Globe, which mentioned that they did finally get signed after some top-secret dealings over the last couple of months. […]