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Under the Apple Tree
Backyard Wedding in East Boston
By: - Jun 17th, 2015We hired our neighbor Ritchie, a chef, to prepare food for our backyard East Boston wedding. The inept students I hired never bothered to turn on the oven. They were too busy being guests. So we served the backup lasagna I made that morning. Then I got dissed by my best man and sister. It was quite the occasion.
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Fireworks
First Kiss Fourth of July
By: - Jun 17th, 2015Circling each other in the art world connected at CAVS event. Came late to my holiday party new house in East Boston. First date and kiss that week. Fireworks then and ever since.
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June
From Town to Country
By: - Jun 17th, 2015Migrant workers. The annual move from loft in North Adams to house in Adams. Summer and winter just minutes from each other. Odd to some makes perfect sense. Seasonal chores of planting flower and vegetable beds. Hopes of harvest and bouquets in the house. Glorious life in the bucolic Berkshires.
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Hippy
Stranger Than Fiction
By: - Jun 15th, 2015Old men in the waiting room comparing aches and pains. First thing in the morning appointment for cortisone shot. Checking e mail. Note from a colleague updated on postponed hip replacements.
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Reading Therapy
Notes from a Convalescent
By: - Jun 12th, 2015The North Adams based poet Stephen Rifkin, with his wife Wilma, is participating in "Two Natures Talking: Poetry and Visual Arts " at MCLA Gallery 51. The other participants are Ellen Joffe-Halpern and Annie Raskin. On Sunday, June 14 there will be a reading in the gallery. Because he is recovering from an automobile accident and mangled foot Wilma will read his poems. Like Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's Rear Window Rifkin is keeping busy with an eye on other writers.
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1945
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Dylan Patrick
Five-Year-Old at Lighthouse Beach
By: - Jun 11th, 2015A five-year-old is curious about the shed next to the Lighthouse in Annisquam.
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The Mount
Booklaunch at Edith Wharton's Berkshire Home
By: - Jun 10th, 2015On a perfect June evening a booklaunch, my first, on the terrace of Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox. Witty exchanges with director Susan Wissler. Reading Gonzo poems from Shards of Life. Elegant gathering with Berkshire friends and neighbors, artists, writers and citizens of the world. Superb food and fine wine. Guests exploring the formal gardens. Signed a ton of books.
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Putting the Nose on the Ankh-Haf
Restoration Was Not Appreciated
By: - Jun 10th, 2015For two and a half years I worked in the basement of the Egyptian Department of the Museum of Fine Arts. But truly I was the servant of the Pharaohs and the spirituality of their sublime vision of an after life. Part of that was repairing damage and making them whole. Like fixing the broken nose of the Ankh- Haf.
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Backward Buildings
A Tenant In My Home
By: - Jun 10th, 2015Welcoming the Berkshire poet Loretta Fancoeur. What happens when a tenant become an intruder and a house is not your home.
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John Cage
The Art of Silence
By: - Jun 05th, 2015When avant-garde master John Cage was in Boston mking edible paper I photographed and interviewed him for Art News. Starting each semester of my avant-garde seminar at Boston University I showed a video on Cage that included his signature 4' 33." It outraged the students who proved to be remarkbly conservative. That only made me love Cage all the more.
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Not Publisher's Clearing House
Don't Miss Out On the Fun
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015Join other satisfied customers and order the book that everyone is talking about. These are real pictures of a real person who is just thrilled by Charles Giuliano's Shards of Life.
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Father's Day
Skills Not Passed On
By: - Jun 03rd, 2015Lots of guys help their dads with handyman chores around the house. It's useful when you get married and have your own home. My Dad wanted to teach me how to be a surgeon. That didn't go well.
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Duck
Trying Something New on Chinese Mondays
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015For months I debated trying the duck. Last night during weekly Chinese Monday several friends tried different dishes. It reminded of the birthday ducks Jane cooked for fellow Scorpios.
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Shark by the Lighthouse!
It's a Sunfish
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015On the 40th anniversary of Jaws. Panic about fins in the water off the Lighthouse.
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How It Is
Hauling Lobsters
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015knot the line open traps take the lobsters claws together big enough so they dont/cant reach back to bite your wrist
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Y Not Gourmet
Frugal Franny
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015On sale at Big Y paid three bucks for a five pound chicken. Got three or four meals out of it. Living well, on the cheap, is the best revenge.
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Hurlers
Swimming at Lane's Cove
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015Summer splashing at Lane's Cove with the kids.
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XVIII LUKE & JODY
No Smoking in Her Fo'c'stle
By: - Jun 02nd, 2015H.R.G. to R.J.D.H. "very precise to the quarter it comes from" Chas. Olson
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NAM NHIEP
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CANNY'S PIT
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First Novel
A Tale of Two Cities
By: - Jun 01st, 2015I grew up loving Westerns from Tom Mix to Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger. Just before Chrustmas I started my first novel about two crusty stagecoach drivers I dubbed Rawhind and Jake.
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Sandwich
PB&J With a Twist
By: - Jun 01st, 2015During the idle days of summer my older sister Josephine was clever at coming up with pranks on the mean maids who presided over us. Mom and day worked during the week. It was funny until her prank turned on me.
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Wild Party
Smiles of a Summer Night
By: - Jun 01st, 2015Growing up as an outsider in Annisquam I wasn't invited to a neighbor's party. Instead of getting mad I got even with a much bigger one. It got me into huge trouble.
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Mind reposing on a love of Fords
Car Talk
By: - Jun 01st, 2015From Annisquam we have a poem by Geoffrey Movius. He recalls growing up with trusty Fords.
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