Celebrating the Fourth and revisiting Monday
By David Fortier Come Sunday Morning, the potato salad and pasta salad Mary and I will be taking to the family Fourth of July picnic will have been whipped up…
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Summertime, grand kids and concerts
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, summertime will have become official with the end of the school year, the first music concert at the Rockwell Park amphitheater, a family birthday party and…
Graduations, Page pool and some history
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Father’s Day, of course, there will have been the inauguration of a new federal holiday, Juneteenth, a Parks and Rec fundraiser at the new…
The neighborhood holds surprises
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the temperature will have moderated a bit, after a week with some cooler days toward the weekend. And it’s all fine, despite the rhododendron…
Rhododendrons, babysitting and journalism
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Mary and I will have had a second babysitting gig of grandbaby boy, so it looks like things are picking up now that we…
Memorial Day and, perhaps, a new normal
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the Memorial Day weekend will be in full swing. At the same time, I am thinking, the crazy weather maybe sending us a message, that…
Photos, videos, FaceTime–and where we are going
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Mary will have clipped the irises that grandpa planted ages ago–Grandpa is no longer with us, but the flowers he planted and the tools…
Good weather–and good times!
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the weather will have been turned so that Saturday was one for the books, a bit chilly but shining sun and bright blue skies,…
Time enough–and space–to begin to understand?
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, I will have tried to sleep in but will only succeed in sleeping a little more than usual because that is the way things…
TBE’s role in the community, and the grandkids
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, our little TBE group will have met, some in person and others over the phone, to discuss the week that passed and plan for…
New beginnings — and some reading!
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, I will be glad because this has been one of those weeks—just happy to get through and happy for a new beginning, especially since,…
Grateful–even if masked and socially distanced
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning all the plans for our socially distanced Easter celebration will have come to pass—sauces simmered, salad prepped, presents wrapped—and all that will be left…
This one flew by. Why is that?
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the week will have flown by. That is not always the case. Some weeks never seem to end, so this makes me wonder why…
Voting bills, to watch; sunshine and spring, to enjoy!
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, spring will have sprung and Day Light Savings time will be the new norm; it always takes a bit to adjust, and I have…
Signs of progress and a brighter future. It’s up to us.
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, I will have dissected a cow eye with a physiology-anatomy class at school and I will have checked out Bristol Bucks, a new initiative…
Vaccinated and yet in a holding pattern
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, I will have been vaccinated, and Mary, too. We are both in the 55-65 age group: I am a teacher. She put her name…
A birthday, a bat in the kitchen and BOE meetings
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning … I will have returned to the classroom after three weeks or so of quarantine and it was like the old saying, climbing back…
Ice skating at Rockwell. How about that!
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning the snow will have stopped, even earlier on Saturday, and while there is new precipitation just over the horizon on Monday, there is no…
A verdict and life goes on, but wouldn’t have been nice if …
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, I will have spent every available moment listening to the second impeachment of the former president. (And of course, we all know the verdict.) It…
A Super Bowl and more of the same
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, with the Super Bowl on the horizon one of the big issues that arose in family texts was whether to root for Tom Brady…