Can you smell me now?

Both my maternal and paternal grandparents lived in the North End of Boston. To this day, I remember the aroma of baked bread - it was the signal on Atlantic Avenue that I had arrived at the North End. When we were kids, we used to take warm scali bread and dip it into a simmering pot of 'gravy' as a snack. Boy, I sure do miss this smell...

Influences and Procrastination

Procrastination first - It's 11 pm and I have yet to finish readings for a seminar I am taking. .... Pensive, maybe. Tired, for sure. Overwhelmed - I'm okay with juggling for now. I guess I am still stuck on thinking about my specialized subject matter of undergraduate students and the impact one (an older adult - either faculty or staff) has on developing their minds - either through academics or student formation.

So all this stuff is getting technical I know, but I wanted to pose a question to you'all that opened this seminar. What in your education influenced you the most? Care to share?

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From one corner of the US (Times Square, NYC) to the other corner (Maui, HI):

The Big One

'Red Sox fans refuse to turn against Ortiz. They just can't. They owe him too much for 2004 and 2007. It's like turning on Santa Claus or happy hour.' So says ESPN’s Sports Guy. Really? I feel for him; he’s not a quitter and has been consistent since 2002 but he is getting older, misses Manny in the lineup, and for whatever other reasons there are, he's in a monumental slump. And it's costing the Red Sox money. True, he's not the only problem at the moment and it's early in the season. But how much longer will the Red Sox organization be patient with Big Pappi? He's been the face of the Red Sox for awhile now and one of the positive attributes of this organization is that not only are they successful businessmen, they also have a heart.

There’s talk of a possible trade – but I keep the hope burning that soon (and it definitely needs to be soon) his bat will make contact with the ball for a hit – any hit will do. I still believe…..

Wordless Wednesdays

Manna for Today

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.~Rumi

GM-Where has it gone?

Looks like GM is going the way of some other great institutions. My first car was a Chevy Nova - at least it got me to and from school. Nova joins the ranks of: cassette players, car ashtrays, phone booths, Gremlins, Valiants, Woolworth's, and in our neck of the woods - Filene's Basement!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJMAxbK0ho