We stopped to read the signs at spots that grabbed our attention and toured Paul Revere’s home, where we learned that the Wadsworth poem might have been quite different had his dad not anglicized his Huguenot name from Appolos Rivoire to Paul Revere. (Rivoire is a harder name than Reve...
She described the inspiration for her tone-poem, “Floating in the Stars” which uses harp and orchestra bells to evoke the whimsy and wonder of star gazing and the sensation of drifting among the stars, as the artwork of VYC students Vivian and Odette Iannetta. Conductor Thomas Wilkins congra...
My sister called the hospice nurse on duty, who had to come and fill out the paperwork and prepare mom’s body for the funeral home to take her away. Once the nurse arrived my sister and my cousin didn’t want to be in the room any longer and went to bed. I felt like staying si...
It’s heartening to see Sparhawk and Parker as examples of well respected and clearly progressive members of my church who lived authentically. At Mary Bradford’s funeral, authenticity was a common theme as well. If she had decided to suppress her personality and beliefs to better fit in with...
The 1967 poem from which it is (mis)taken contains far bleaker Thomas-esque currents (‘ugliness that scars the spirit / as the earth’, ‘rivers of mingled blood and sweat’), but this opening snippet has become both tourist branding, found everywhere it can be sold, and a kind of ...
Since I am a hospice nurse, I cared for her until the end, even performing her post Mortem care and helping the funeral home load her onto the gurney and into the van. I am supposed to go back to work Monday but I am unsure at this point if I will be able to, because of the ...
SHIVA BABY– A college student runs into her sugar daddy at a Jewish funeral in Emma Seligman’s critically praised drama. THE SPARKS BROTHERS– Edgar Wright’s documentary portrait to two of the most enigmatic pop stars from my youth. ...
In The Last Good Funeral of the Year (riverrun, March), the death before her time of an old friend forces Ed O'Loughlin to reappraise his life, his family and his career as a foreign correspondent and novelist in a new, ...
We stopped to read the signs at spots that grabbed our attention and toured Paul Revere’s home, where we learned that the Wadsworth poem might have been quite different had his dad not anglicized his Huguenot name from Appolos Rivoire to Paul Revere. (Rivoire is a harder name than ...