Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legacy of seeing a need and responding to it that I value," Edelman said as she described the women of faith who have been her inspiration, including Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune and the biblical Moses' mother and sister...
...about them. It's about Scott, my brother-in-law and father of my niece. Scott is not from Massachusetts and until recently wasn't even much of a baseball fan. His wife, Gail, my sister, is fiercely from Massachusetts, as are my brother, my father, my mother and myself. Scott married Gail and therefore married Massachusetts. He also married the Red Sox, if he wants to be invited for Thanksgiving...
...joke: winning it in our lifetime. Morose. A related joke is that the Red Sox have taken years off our lives. Each spring we warn each other against getting wrapped up in their June successes, as September's swoon or October's shortfall will burden the heart unnecessarily. My mother, for one, tries very hard to stay aloof each year. May, June, July she will counsel Dad, me, Kevin and Gail not to care. Dad will have the game on NESN and Mom will emphatically read her mystery novel on the other couch, paying no attention until the final...
...tremendous late-season road trip and swept the reigning world champions three straight, finishing by beating Roger Clemens. (He's a player in this saga, too. Is he ever.) I was vacationing on Nantucket with my wife and daughter, listening to the Clemens game on my mother-in-law's 30-year-old transistor radio as Caroline napped in the stroller and Luci shopped the Main Street boutiques. I was telling my sleeping daughter, "Clemens used to be with us. Tremendous arm, but never won a big one for us. He cleaned out his locker once, like a kid taking...
...which they?ll pick up Nielsen and drop off her replacement. After the rescue, Nielsen is due to be flown back to the U.S. for further diagnosis and treatment. Then she - and maybe we - will learn her prognosis. Why the intense interest in this story? Blame it all on Mother Nature. These days, with technology allowing man almost complete coverage of the globe, Antarctica in winter provides one of the few remaining impenetrable frontiers. Just like the public fascination with the polar exploits of Scott and Amundsen at the turn of the century, the frozen continent continues to find ways...