GOOD ONE [FOUND ON THE WEB]

CHECK IT OUT

I've always been proud of my oldest child, Caitlin, and her achievements, and here is her latest one [click on the link to see her interview]:

https://spectrumnews1.com/ma/worcester/news/2020/07/08/sheffield-story-walk?fbclid=IwAR3PzVYy7nuWg5QnE_CwRkmTAU_uPl9DoZ17BIBwlDlyWhYCy3gkUYOofTo

ONCE UPON A TIME

me in 2002, post cancer operation, at my 60th birthday party, between two of my best, longtime, dear friends, poets Simon Pettet and Annabel Lee (in another best, longtime, dearest friend Karen Allen's back yard)

TWO GOOD POINTS I FOUND ON THE WEB

LORA SOMOZA R.I.P.

I just learned that one of the loves of my life has passed. Lora Somoza was also one of the most intelligent, most beautiful, most hilarious, and most unique humans I've ever known. We weren't "boyfriend and girlfriend" for very long and it was many years ago, but we never ceased reaffirming our love for each other and how much we missed being together every time we saw each other or spoke on the phone or connected through comments on Facebook and other communications. I loved her from the moment we met and always will, and as devastated as I am by the news I can't imagine the pain her father and mother, who she adored, must be going through. My condolences to them and all her family and friends and loves. God do we all miss you already and always will.

NOT MINE, BUT WHAT I WAS THINKING

ONCE AGAIN

I've posted this photo before but I love it so much here it is again. Taken during WWII which ended The Great Depression so folks looking flush despite the wartime rationing. Me in my mother's arms with two aunts to my left who also lived on our street. My mother's mother next to her then my two oldest brothers, one in the Army Air Corps, the other soon to join The Navy, next to them a great aunt and my father's immigrant Irish mother. Down front another brother and my father in the fedora with one of my sister's on his knee, two cousins beside her and another sister. So me and my five living siblings (another died as an infant) and my parents lived in this house and my maternal grandmother and that great aunt would soon be living with us too! The joint was always jumping.