My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Boston tonight. I will return to a normal posting schedule tomorrow.
-MJ, April 15, 2013
My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Boston tonight. I will return to a normal posting schedule tomorrow.
-MJ, April 15, 2013
My time in Boston was much shorter than Jane S’s, having lived there just a few years for grad school, but I still have much emotional attachment to the city. Such a beautiful city and now that I no longer live there I even miss the weather (we don’t have seasons where I am now). However, today I am sad as an American and not merely as an ex-Bostonian. My thoughts and prayers to all as well.
I grew up just 10 miles north of Boston. I went to college and law school in Boston and lived in Back Bay on Boylston Street directly across the street from the Prudential Center where the Arthur Fiedler would light the Christmas in December and where the Boston Marathon would end on Patriot’s Day in April. This was my neighborhood. My friends and I would go to Heartbreak Hill and pass out cups of water. Although I never ran in the marathon, it was part of me and all Bostonians. Patriot’s Day marked the first day of spring break for… Read more »