Chapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting-First Boy/Girl Relationship in High School

By Merrie Reagan / May 24, 2025 /

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…

Author Interview

By Merrie Reagan / May 14, 2025 /

Interview with Cohasset 143 TV

Chapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting-New friend and Teenage Lingo

By Merrie Reagan / May 14, 2025 /

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…

Chapter Two-Reflecting and Reconnecting

By Merrie Reagan / May 2, 2025 /

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 Excerpt Chapter One: Awakening

By Merrie Reagan / April 24, 2025 /

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…

Why I Wrote Life Flashes: A Memoir and Writing Processes

By Merrie Reagan / March 14, 2025 /

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…