Today is the first anniversary of one of the most important people in my life: my mother’s only sister, Mary McCann, the oldest of the six children in the Paige family.
Everybody should have an Aunt Mary in his life. Aunt Mary was the person who would walk into a room, and faces all [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Mary McCann: 1921-2005
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yeah, right.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate voted against allowing pharmacies to inform parents that their daughters had purchased the morning-after pill. (It also voted against allowing pharmacists to opt out of selling this pill according to their consciences.) So what do I read in this morning’s news??
http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/8082400/detail.html?taf=orl
Heaven forfend we should Trample on the Rights [...]
Freight Train on Signal Street
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yes, there really is a Signal Street in downtown Rochester, and stopped at a gated crossing, I thought of the inevitable.
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,rumblin’ down the railroad track,loaded cars with screeching wheels,round the bend on roads of steel.
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack.We used to stand by the railroad track,hand in hand, my boy and me,and watch as far as the [...]
How Irish Am I, Anyway??
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2006 | 1 Comment »
You’re not Irish. Not even a wee bit.Not even on St. Patrick’s Day!
How Irish Are You?
That’s a relief.
Actually, I’m half Irish, on my mother’s side — probably not even half, if you count the fact that one of my great-grandmothers was German — but it’s not something I brag about, particularly. In my experience, never [...]
Clara Brunck: 1915? – 1968
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2006 | 5 Comments »
“Dutch uncles” seem to have gone out of style these days, those men who weren’t really relatives, but were such close friends of the family that children were encouraged to call them “Uncle So-and-So.” Well, Aunt Clara would have been a “Dutch aunt.” She lived next door to us when I was a kid, she [...]
John Walter Paige: 1899-1981
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I did think I would get back here before now, especially since last Saturday was an important day to mark, the repose of both my grandfather and an important family friend. Blood is thicker than water, so I’ll start with Grandpa.
If I have just one regret in life, and of course I have many, [...]
