Category Archives: family

Failed Artist

May 18, 2013 – 7:18 pm

My wife called from Thailand. Mam needed money for Fenway’s school. I told her that I’d sent some in the morning, which wasn’t quick enough and she started crying about having married an artist. “I’m not an artist. I”m a failed writer.” Artists are just as poor in Thailand as they are in the USA, [...]

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Mother’s Day

May 12, 2013 – 6:12 pm

According to Wikipedia the First Mother’s Day was established as a “Mother’s Day for Peace”. The pacifism campaign was subverted in 1908 by Anna Jarvis celebrating her late mother in West Virginia and commercial interests recognized the money-making capabilities of the holiday promoting flowers, cards, and candies. Jarvis later railed against the crass commercialization of [...]

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THE GUILT OF MOTHERS by Peter Nolan Smith

May 12, 2013 – 3:17 pm

Back in the 90s I deserted New York to spend the Christmas holidays with my family on the South Shore. Despite my abandoned God as a child my mother persisted in requesting my attendance at Midnight Mass. It was a small sacrifice and I said, saying, “Sure.” One Christmas Eve I dressed in a dark-gray [...]

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NORTH END MIRACLE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 12, 2013 – 12:16 pm

Every Friday evening throughout the 1960s my mother would drive our station wagon into Boston and pick up my father at 50 Milk Street, where he worked for Ma Bell as an electrical engineer. We would have dinner at a restaurant and then drive back to our suburb on the South Shore. My parents loved [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day 2012

May 12, 2013 – 11:14 am

Falmouth Foresides, Maine 1957 My mother in bliss. A summer afternoon with her kids and my father. We were a happy family. Then now and forever. I’m on the far right. 8 years from my first beer. Happy Mother’s Day. We all had one.

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