by Kathleen Pellegrino | Mar 18, 2021 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, Giving thanks
We followed the college kids for March vacation, but did so in a more careful environment in Surfside on Florida’s east coast. As a New Englander who summers much of the time at Cape Cod or New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, I had, as usual, architectural...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Mar 3, 2021 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, flowers, Giving thanks, holiday hosting, Mystery, News
This author grew up on the South Shore area of Boston, having lived in Dorchester, Quincy, Wollaston, Cohasset, and Milton. Any way you cut it, St. Patrick’s Day was then the holiday of the year following Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and the fourth of July....
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Feb 10, 2021 | After the Party, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, Giving thanks
What to eat after over a year of being jammed up in seclusion and perhaps enjoying unlimited taste of food over common sense moderation in what we eat? No, I am not giving you recipes. Nor are you getting ideas for dinner from me. Nor am I telling you about the great...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Feb 3, 2021 | After the Party, charity, Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life, Giving thanks
It’s a cold day in February, St. Blaise Day, the martyr and saint of the Blessing of the Throats. I have a son whose middle name is Blaise after the Italian Bishop whose reputation includes a love of children and saving one such child from choking on a fish...
by Kathleen Pellegrino | Jan 13, 2021 | Endurance, Environment, Experiencing life
Often folks have shared with me what I call, great ‘rhetoric.’ What do I mean by ‘rhetoric’ in this context? Wordy constructs which, at first, sound great to the ear or to the eye. A good orator may fool the ear and a great writer certainly may...
Kathleen lives with her husband Joe and their dog Othello midst their large family in Springfield, Massachusetts.
"My love affair with plots, murder, mystery, spies and, in general, with crime novels began at an early age. I read and read – probably have read 2,000 crime novels since then. Even at an early age, I developed my own plots if only to cover up my misdeeds to the chagrin of my family and teachers. Some less creative called it fibbing!
Now I write from the love of plot – of people and their ways –of life – of philosophy – about crime –about the sociopath/psychopath."
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