Posts tagged “family”
Jennifer A. Gagne
Notes on the world’s best sister
Trip
I finally managed to finish all my Christmas cards last night. It figures that I would run out of stamps with three left – mom, dad, and Nana Rainy’s. People should start getting my Christmas cards around the first week of January, so that’s always pleasant. And of course I haven’t mailed any gifts yet.
Birthday
Happy 50th Birthday, Dad!
Helium Joke
Every now and then my mom – because she loves me like silly – sends me newspaper clippings from the comics section. I just got a particularly funny one from Frank and Ernest. Two microbes are reading the latest issue of BioWeek magazine and one says to the other, “There’s a cover story on helium.”
Intellivision Video Game Console
For about a year and a half … somewhere between the Atari 2600 and Super Nintendo, between grade school and high school … there was Intellivision. My mom bought Jenny (my little sister) and I an Atari 2600 the second Christmas they were available. We lived in Holly Hill, FL – the closest thing to
One More Minute
I’d rather have my blood sucked out by leeches Shove an ice pick under a toenail or two I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station … with my tongue … When we were (much, much) younger, my little sister and I used to thrill and delight our gathered relatives by singing our
Halloween
Some thoughts on the upcoming holiday
Mike
BOSTON (CNN) — The Boston Harbor was shut down Sunday for about three hours after the U.S. Coast Guard received two bomb threats. After a sweep of the area, Coast Guard officials found no sign of anything suspicious and reopened most of the harbor. My little brother is in the Coast Guard (see here). My
New England
So did anyone miss me last week? I have the feeling that nobody even noticed I wasn’t here. It’s okay. As much as I kid, it’s a feeling I know well. Whatever. While I was gone – and my week away from the keyboard was probably the longest I’ve gone without posting anything in almost