It’s been a helluva year or three. It’s been a while since I’ve really sat down to write, but I promised myself I would make a better attempt at it in 2019, so here goes.
My 2018 Recap.
Category: Stories
Original stories from by Larry Jensen.
Goodbye my Friend (Remembering Dave Cummings)
1982, what a strange year it was. I remember hearing about the new people who moved in up the street and I recall wanting to welcome them to the neighborhood. As luck would have it, this new family had not one, but two young men my age; Dave and Randy Cummings. I was immediately intrigued…
Crossing Paths in a Small World
It was the first time I had been so far away from home and my eyes and mind filled with amazement as I watched all these people driving past us and us past them. Who were they, I wondered.
Every Grain of Rice
Just then, the woman who asked me to take their photo earlier, looked at me and said: “would you like to join us for dinner?” Minutes later I was sitting with them enjoying a nice Indian dish, some wine and watermelon.
I Love Rocky Neck – Gloucester MA
“Are you Brenda” I ask.
“Yes I am – Happy Day” she replies.
“I’m Larry, Judy and Tom’s friend” I say introducing myself.
“Want to go to the Farmers Market” Brenda asks.
One year one the road
Over and over these people prove the news to be wrong. The world is full of good, no – great people. People that open up their homes and hearts and welcome in a stranger, but it doesn’t end there. Not only am I…
How do you pronounce these Massachusetts town names?
Massachusetts wins with their complete disregard for rules or even spelling when it comes to pronouncing their town names. So let’s take a test and have some fun.
From the Florida Keys to Gloucester MA
27 nautical miles north of Boston, MA lay an old fishing village located on the Inner Harbor of Gloucester, MA. A peninsula named Rocky Neck just out into this harbor and serves as home to one of the oldest continually operating art colonies in the United States, the Rocky Neck Artist Colony.
Happy New Year 2017, Key West, Fl
Happy New Year 2017Key West, FL Most people live with a plan. From the moment you wake up till you go to sleep, every hour of your day is planned out. Some have theirs planned out so well that they know what they need to do down to the minute. That is not my life,…
2016 What a ride you’ve been
I entered 2016 on a dark horse. Still in mourning over the loss of Lexie to cancer just a week earlier, I had little to celebrate. No matter how much I tried, I could not escape the cloud that hung over me. A ray of sun would break through, even if only for a moment.