Calling All Angels
The Standard Times, New Bedford’s local newspaper, (and, full disclosure, the paper in which my articles appear weekly) is [...]
And the Party Continues
You all know I’ve been celebrating my 60th birthday since about mid-summer. The actual date was Thanksgiving, 11/23 and [...]
Deb’s Childhood – Revisited
Thomas Wolfe wrote “You Can’t Go Home Again”. His experience was vastly different from mine; his protagonist’s town turned [...]
Mussels and Carrots and Leeks, Oh My!
As the weather cools I look for soul satisfying soups and stews to take the chill off and to [...]
Wicked, In a Good Way
Yesterday was my mom’s birthday. She would have been 95, but she left us at 87. Having a Halloween [...]
For the Love of Pumpkin
I keep reading articles about people being “pumpkin-ed out”. That’s just heresy. Fall wouldn’t be fall without pumpkin. I [...]
Irreverence and Sarcasm
Some of us were lucky enough to see the humorist David Sedaris at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford [...]
The Official Invitation
Anyone going to be in New England over Thanksgiving? I'm celebrating and I want everyone to come. Turning 60 [...]
The Hurting Time
I just read a wonderful novel called The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. I read a passage that [...]
Big Head Todd and the Monster Mussels
Actually, the band’s name is Big Head Todd and the Monsters. But we dined at Red Stripe restaurant in [...]