Onset Massachusetts – msomervillesite

Home Again ~ My Cup Runneth Over

Taken any sentimental journeys lately? Some people never leave their home towns, some leave and never look back, some return after an absence. Here is a part of my story; what is yours?

September into October Reading

Here is my latest contribution to the #What’s On YOur Bookshelf Reading Challenge. What is on your bookshelf?

Piece Meal Stories of Jack and Maggie, Part I

Do you love to cook? How old were you or at what stage in your life did you learn? Do you have favorite memories of meals from your youth?

“A Short Trip to Onset…is Better Than No Trip to Onset”

Taken any sentimental journeys lately?

A Land Locked Life with a Beach Girl Heart

The mountains are one kind of beauty and the beach and ocean another kind of beauty and I have been privileged to call them both home. I am a Flat Lander, a Beach Girl and an immigrant in a state full of mountains, forests and farmlands. There are mountains in Massachusetts, but my whole lifeContinue reading “A Land Locked Life with a Beach Girl Heart”

Bridges

Have you ever had a love/hate relationship with an inanimate object? Read my story about some of my most favorite and least favorite Bridges.

On Writing (Part I)

I fell in love with words and writing when I was in ninth grade, and it is a love that has lasted a lifetime.

Unexpected Blessings ~ Part II

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND There have been many times in my life when my default mode has been “Out of sight, out of mind.” When I transferred from public school to boarding school the beginning of 7th grade, it didn’t occur to me to let any of my classmates know, except my bestContinue reading “Unexpected Blessings ~ Part II”

On Languages, Accents and Being Home

I am from a small town just southwest of Cape Cod; On our end, the Cape Cod Canal begins in the waters of Buzzards Bay, just outside of Onset Bay. My husband says that people here “talk funny” but that is because I don’t have an accent, not a discernable one anyway. My mother wouldn’tContinue reading “On Languages, Accents and Being Home”