One of our favorite relatives, known to me as Cousin Dickie, died last Friday. Here’s the obit I worked up: Richard G. King, 80, of 1459 Ocean Boulevard died on March 15 after a long illness. Born on July 11, 1938, in Danvers, MA, Richard came as a child to live in Rye Beach [NH] […]
RYE BEACH NEW HAMPSHIRE
THE DEAREST FRESHNESS DEEP DOWN THINGS
I have been traveling and am feeling just a teensy bit drained as in I am going to Logan six hours early Friday to try to get on stand-by for the three flights back to LA before mine. Yes! Eager to be back in my little sanctuary: my own bed, my own coffee-maker, my own […]
MEMORIES, HOME
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about education. But some good, sacred memory preserved from childhood – that is perhaps the best education. For if […]
O HOLY NIGHT: THE CHRISTMAS COUSIN RICHARD SANG
I’ll be thinking tonight of my cousin Richard, back in the land of my birth: New Hampshire. Richard is cheerful, industrious, and hard-working. He was given as a young boy into the care of his (and my) paternal grandparents, who he in turn cared for till they died and who left him their house in […]