‘You came back! Why? A woman like you!! To a place like this?? Why?” Those of you who don’t know that line should be ashamed. It’s a riff on Eli Wallach’s demise as the bandit chief in “The Magnificent Seven”…. Read More ›
Month: March 2014
Stay In The Car and Other Classic Lines – Marilyn Armstrong
In the spirit of clichés that pop out of the mouths of Our Heroes with alarming frequency, despite the fact that they have become standing jokes for the audience (apparently nobody mentioned this to the script writers), our personal favorite… Read More ›
Neighbors and Old Friends – Marilyn Armstrong
Friends come in many sizes and shapes. Horses, dogs, cats and other warm fuzzy creatures give our lives texture and joy … and old things holding memories of other times and places … these too become friends, holding our memories… Read More ›
UPDATE-MARILYN: 8 MEATBALLS SUNDAY
The title of today’s blog should be a hint. I’ll get to it in a minute. Marilyn asked me to bring her clothing, her lap top and myself — in that order. Oh, yes, make sure there’s clean underwear in… Read More ›
A Gaggle of Geese – Marilyn Armstrong
On a pond on a sunny summer’s day, on a shiny pond on Cape Cod, a gaggle of Canada geese came to visit.
The Five Second Rule
A few curious thoughts by Rich Paschall, Sunday Night Blog Admit it. You have probably invoked the five second rule many times in your life. Maybe you tend to do it when no one else is around, but you do it… Read More ›
UPDATE: MARILYN-A QUIET SATURDAY
Time flies when you’re having fun. Let’s attribute that line to Marilyn who’s now almost a week and a half into her stay at Beth Israel Hospital’s Cardiac Care Unit. The fun includes a bypass, valve replacement, pacemaker implant and… Read More ›
Blackstone Valley Roads – Marilyn Armstrong
These are places I pass as I go to and from the various routine errands and activities of life. They aren’t special places … or rather, they aren’t places that I have to seek out because they are along the… Read More ›
It’s Not Your Equipment … It’s a Lack of Documentation! – Marilyn Armstrong
Maybe I should just give up, but I spent my career writing material to help folks use complicated equipment and sometimes very obscure software. I should probably start by mentioning that I’ve fought this battle for long years … and was… Read More ›
Combing the Archives
Some updates from a pinch-hitter, by Rich Paschall While Marilyn is “out of office,” I have the opportunity to go back through the archives to repost some of Marilyn’s earliest works here on Serendipity. Like the name of the blog… Read More ›
UPDATE: MARILYN – AN **UNBELIEVABLE** FRIDAY!!
“I’m coming home home tomorrow,” Marilyn chirped as we arrived to visit her today at Beth Israel’s Cardiac Care Unit. Cherrie Welburn and I looked at each other, our winter pale brown skin seemingly turning white in the flash of… Read More ›
Ogunquit, Maine: Sunrise, Sand, Rivers, Feathered and Other Friends – Marilyn Armstrong
Autumnal equinox in the northern latitudes. September. A week in Ogunquit, Maine. A tiny place but close to the beach and the river. Quiet this time of year. Most tourists are gone, now, so the streets aren’t crowded. There is… Read More ›
Without Benefit of Clergy – Marilyn Armstrong
I was Jewish when I married Garry in a Lutheran Church. I said then … and I say now … any God I am willing to worship doesn’t care what ritual you use, what language you speak, what color you… Read More ›
UPDATE: MARILYN – PT THURSDAY
Today was Marilyn’s 8th day at Beth Israel’s Cardiac Care Unit in Boston. It was also her most active since undergoing 5 surgeries including a bypass, valve replacement, pacemaker implant and inflation of collapsed lungs. Cherrie Welburn and I arrived… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 