Technology has sucked the romance out of relationships. Just ask my grandparents.
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time with the old people in my life. Every weekend this month I have flown 3,000 miles to the East Coast to listen to them recap the stories of their youth. I have listened to them talk [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
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Posted in love, my people, tagged family, love, love lessons i learned from the old people in my life, relationships, technology on November 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
in her words
Posted in love, my people, tagged family, grandmothers, love, love lessons i learned from the old people in my life on October 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My Nana is dying. She has advanced emphysema and struggles to breathe every day. She is disappearing pound by pound before my eyes and for the past week I have had the privilege of helping my mother and aunt Dot take care of her at my parents’ home in Massachusetts. In 28 years, I have [...]
Sometimes the only clarity you get occurs at 35,000 feet. Over patchwork corn fields and roadways carved through pine forests somewhere in Pennsylvania. When state lines are indistinguishable and you believe every big river you cross is the Mississippi. It’s during these moments when wedged between the window and an armrest that I actually consider [...]
one last plea
Posted in my people, sports, tagged family, lessons i learned from the old people in my life, red sox, sports on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Tito,
I’m not sure you realize what is at stake here.
Personally, I don’t care about winning the World Series again this year. I don’t care about capturing the division. I just want us to make the playoffs. I want to make it to October. I want you boys to play like you give a [...]
Special
Posted in all, my people, tagged family, life, notes to myself on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A package came to the house the other day. It was from my nana and something I anticipated arriving for about a week. No, I didn’t get a new job, or a promotion, or a new apartment. (Yet.) I just have an awesome nana that occasionally mails care packages to her poor granddaughter the writer. [...]
a good story
Posted in love, my people, tagged anniversaries, family, relationships, writing on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
MOM: Today is the 35th anniversary of the day your father and I met.
ME: Wow. What made you remember the date?
MOM: Because June 3rd is the day I met your father. Don’t you remember the day you met M —?
ME: No. But that’s probably why I’m not married to M—
As someone who is paid to [...]
the countdown begins
Posted in my people, tagged family, friends, life, what kids can teach us on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Most of the time I don’t feel 3,000 miles away from my family. I probably talk to them now more than I ever did in college. Scratch that. I definitely do. In college, my parents used to call my roommates and ask if I was still alive and receiving mail at that address. Now, they [...]
Recapping the past – part ii
Posted in love, my people, tagged family, grandparents, love, marriage advice, more lessons from the old people in my life on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was never able to have a sit down conversation with my grandfather Buzz. That is what people used to call him. It was a name he inherited in the military. I should probably find out why.
I regret not being able to ask him about being raised by his grandmother in Nebraska. I wish [...]
Recapping the past – part i
Posted in my people, tagged family, grandparents, heritage, what i learned from the old people in my life on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I traveled back to Boston and Florida to visit the old people in my life. My goal was to interview them, learn their stories and capture the past on paper.
I spent several days taking notes and prodding into their personal lives with questions like: tell me about being pregnant, what [...]
