Memoirs of a South Boston Non-Native
Recently, I was asked by a family friend how I ended up in South Boston. Â The short answer is the Red Line. Â The real answer (which is much longer), involves [...]
Incredibile Soup
The recipe for this incredible soup can never be duplicated. It was never written down or passed on orally. As the years pass, my memory of the delicious soup almost [...]
Southie #1
C'mon. You've seen it. If you grew up in Southie when I did, (circa 70's, 80's) you saw this written everywhere.It was on school notebooks, buildings, walls, and mailboxes. I [...]
Summertime 1979-1980
School was out for summer and color TV was all the rage. Â Cable was still a couple of years away from Boston. Video games were in their infancy and cell [...]
Memories of the Ollie Day Camp
When summer fades into fall, I am reminded of the summers we spent in South Boston during the 1970's and early 1980's.We had so many different experiences back then. How [...]
What Heather is Watching
I love TV. I know in grammar school we were all told by Sister So and So that it's not grammatically correct to say you love an inanimate object, but [...]
