Couple of photos of folks from Thanksgiving. Mom and (my sister) Grace and I went down to Provincetown, and had Thanksgiving with Kathy and Kathleen and the boys… My sister, my mom, and I, on the beach across from the house. The whole crew on the beach. Except my mom, because someone had to take [...]
Off to dinner with my mom in a few minutes, at the newly-restored Ashmont Grill in Dorchester. For most of my childhood, the Ashmont Grill was a pretty run-down, nay crappy, bar. Kind of a dive. Or at least I think it was, because I only went there once, and I was about 8 years [...]
My paternal grandmother died this morning, rather suddenly. She’s been feeble, in a home with full-time care, for many years. But she seemed healthy. I really wasn’t at all close to her, so it isn’t a big loss for me. By that I mean only that it wasn’t a loss on the scale of my [...]
The order of service (as it were) for the scattering of my dad’s ashes at “The Farm” in West Virginia. It was lovely, and wonderful, and cathartic. And there’s something to be said for the fact that my dad’s ashes aren’t sitting in my mom’s basement any longer. I can’t help but think that it’s [...]
Or feeling like I should, at least. I’m in the lobby of a 50′s-style airport hotel just beneath the glide slope of runway 28-Right at Pittsburgh International Airport. It’s a great place. Really. Spent today visiting elderly relatives, and my aunt and uncle too. After a night of almost no sleep, thanks to a gravelly [...]