THIS MAY I LOOKED FORWARD TO A SPECTACULAR MIGRATION in the midst of Boston, Cambridge, Watertown, and Medford (MA). With species in rapid extinction, I had given up on this migration, much as the grey whales disappeared from migrating the 2,000 miles up the Atlantic...
As summer’s soft breath greets wisteria and peach trees, stores are closed and schools have barricaded doors. In Massachusetts, the plague still hovers close. COVID asks humans to shut bodies inside, not to shut off attention. Fear is on steroids but hiding helps...
Dear Ones — know that you are love and are living on Earth to love. This is not a social media announcement. I’m probably breaking the rules~not the first time. We can do acts of kindness. We can give more from our larder, walk in the shoes of a mother from Honduras,...
Meteorologists predict forest fires, storms and gargantuan flooding. So if tornadoes are predicted we need to fly into action. NOW. Today. With a Clif Energy Bar in one hand, and a photo of our child’s first day of school in our pocket. We need to work on the...
I saw the bird in passing, as I loped across the intersection. I hopped up the curb to the sidewalk and I saw it in my mind’s eye--the head contorted, the legs splayed out, the lower beak jerked out like a huge thorn. It was a robin: it must have been a road kill. If...
Today the river was liquid cellophane, silver and lugubrious. Thank God I am ambulatory and up before the Harvard hordes. I had a nightmare the night before. The dream was a bad car accident where I was terribly hurt but without a drop of blood. Do you ever wonder...
We have much to be thankful for. My life is bedecked with gifts in this rich country in 2012. This Spring in melting America can’t come early enough. What are we waiting for? The Arab Spring is sprung and carried on by Egyptians and Syrians to this day. I can't say...
Did you come across Cambridge’s beauty queen this week? She is a regal site with a Guy Fawkes mask and leather feet. Strolling by the Charles River in December is feasible while balmy breezes punctuate the NE climate. From pre-dawn to sunset the river hums with hawks,...
Would anyone dare swim in the Charles River, the open gutter of Boston? Isn't the water polluted, cold, and filled with blue green algae? Talley ho. In the 1850s Boston alderman called the marshes around the Muddy River a cesspool. Yes siree. Swimming in Cambridge was...
So, admit it. The Charles River is a gem. I have been living in Cambridge for 25 years and the river is an effervescent, sentinel part of our life. We have River festivals and wildlife; cruisers and duck boats. The river is an artery cutting through Cambridge much...