The Giver, by Lois Lowry, published in 1993, entails lives of persons living in an artificially utopian futuristic community founded on Sameness, which includes strict adherence of community rules, allowance of solely superficial thoughts and feelings, no recognition of Transcendence, and at some point “releasing” a person or persons from the community when said person…

Sunday, May 27, 2007 This morning, I visited French Memories, a café, located in Cohasset Village. Shortly after sitting down on a chair facing a small table here, I observed my brother, Jared, and Elissa, the wife of Jared, and their three children. All were entering the charming, small bakery and bistro. Having ended residing…

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Sunday, May 27, 2007 Chapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting-New friend and “Teenage Lingo” Brielle Morgan was a Campbell family babysitter, as was I.  Brielle and I met at Cohasset High School in September of 1967, on the first day that school was in session; we were then ninth-grade students. Morgan family began residing in Cohasset prior…

Thursday, April 19, 2007 This evening, Emmanuel College, located in Boston, Massachusetts hosted a previously advertised lecture event. I graduated from Emmanuel College in May 1975, four years after I graduated from high school. Before attending the scheduled lecture in the library auditorium, I entered Cardinal Cushing Library, located on the college campus. Being here…

LIFE FLASHES: A MEMOIR CHAPTER ONE-AWAKENING January 1, 2007 Donning a white turtleneck jersey, black pants, and light orange, waist-length spring jacket, I stepped outside an apartment I am sharing in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Winter morning darkness surrounded me. The time was 5:00 a.m.  Having experienced many years of job dissatisfaction, having drifted from job to…

I do not fully know why I wrote Life Flashes: A Memoir. I did not intend to do so. I do not know why I began writing a journal in diary form that three years later became *Life Flashes: A Memoir *book manuscript. I do remember beginning to write the manuscript for the book right…