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My second move in a year

Library getting packed up again. I’m too old for this shit. So this bookcase is half-packed and what is there is random, but it makes a pretty funny collage. — Dad’s book on Anglo-Irish literature (dedicated to Mum) — my … Continue reading

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Photo of the Day: The sinister house and door

Two weeks after Jeffrey Epstein “committed suicide” (uh-huh), I was on the Upper East Side with my nephew Cashel and three of his friends. We were going to see the Play It Loud exhibit at the Met. It was a … Continue reading

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#TBT Sisters on an island

This picture was not posed. And I just happened to be there. This isn’t a cell phone picture. It was a “real” camera, so I’m just glad I got it. My sister Jean taught school out on Block Island for … Continue reading

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#TBT Four generations

My grandmother, my mother, my sister Jean, my niece Lucy. Our hearts exploded with joy that day. My grandmother died 7 years ago. Lucy just turned 12.

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Photo of the Day: Sparkler

My niece Pearl with a sparkler. This was a couple of years ago at a Memorial Day barbecue. It was already pretty dark – hence, the blurriness. I still love it, though. It brings up a lot of sadness, though, … Continue reading

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Photo of the Day: The opposite of a bulls-eye

Before we started going to the lake as a family for a week every summer, we did a couple vacations on Cape Cod. In one, we stayed in a house where there was a dartboard in the cellar, and we … Continue reading

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#TBT Keeping score

That time my cousin Kerry and I went to go see the Red Sox play the Yankees at Yankee Stadium and I got to witness first-hand Kerry’s A-plus score-card activity during the game.

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Where I’m at

If you follow me on Instagram then you know that … everything has changed for me in the last couple of months. I have alluded to it here but as is pretty obvious I don’t write explicit personal diary stuff … Continue reading

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Photo of the Day: Eggs

Easter eggs colored at a family Easter celebration years ago. It feels like lifetimes ago. At the time, Cashel was the only grandchild, so we were doing this with him, me, my sisters, my mother. We were in the kitchen … Continue reading

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Photo of the Day: I messed this one up

Every time I look at this photo it makes me laugh. I took it during my first year in New York. I was living on the Upper West Side with my brother and his girlfriend Maria, and attending my first … Continue reading

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