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Sprechen?

Fil By impatient Emmet It’s a damn good thing we didn’t plan D-Day. We would all be speaking German today. Jefferson Phil and I, I think, are good people. We are just bad for each other. It’s probably...

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“Yo, bitches!”

Breaking By broken Emmet Now, what am I going to do on Sunday night? “Breaking Bad” finished its blood-soaked finale on Sunday, which I watched, channel-switching with the dramatic Patriots-Falcons...

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Good night, Roland.

Roland By emmet Roland lived his life better than most of us. Father Ken Cardinale summed up that life the best. At Roland’s funeral last week at St. Phillip’s Church in Grafton, Mass. Fr. Cardinale...

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Traumatic Sports Syndrome

Ptsd By rooting Emmet All right. It was the greatest day in New England sports history. I missed all the good stuff. Are you happy now? It’s true. I was upset at all the dropped passes from Mr. Tom...

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Prepare for the worst!

Sox (what else?) By doubting Emmet I blame it all on Miss Killion. She was my sixth grade teacher at the Sophia W. Ripley School in West Roxbury. On one of my (many) visits to her office for some...

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Feed the Fomorians!

Halloween By scary emmet I believe in all things Irish and not just Jameson whiskey and Guinness stout. Yes, I believe, like the Irish Genealogy Kit web site, that the Irish pretty much invented...

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waste that very last dollar!

Useless, no not me By Emmet In my dotage, there are very few things I still excel at. Yes, I can waste time with the very best of them, clinging to my iPad or Facebook connection for a frightening...

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bam!

Bump in the night By driving Emmet   I blame it all on my inordinate love of Bumper Cars at Nantasket Beach.  Forget the Tilt-a-Whirl and the roller coaster and all those rides. Most of them made me...

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one of our own

Kennedy By Boston Emmet   It was a night that Boston would never forget. Decades later I would go to Boston celebrations for the Patriots then the Red Sox championships. They were nothing compared to...

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Ruin every holiday…

Thanks By Emmet I can remember with dead-certain clarity when my sainted mother would reach over from the front seat of that big Buick to administer one of her patented whistling backhanders. For some...

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Santa, Baldur and Woden.

Xmas By humbug Emmet Just because I spend hours (well, half the day) on the Internet reading E-Mail, Facebook and every sports site on the net, some people (who have jobs) think that I am wasting my...

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“Pretend” Christmas.

Christmas gifties By cheap Emmet Well, here we are again. The checking account is depleted by that tax payment to the town of Camden; the cash is gone for those shingles for the barn roof and a load of...

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Worst Christmas card…ever!

Land, lotsa land By penniless Emmet It seemed like such a good idea at the time. I make an annual pilgrimage to Florida both to worship the mighty Red Sox and to bake the cold out of these old bones....

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Try the guanciali, best in the city.

Cahmden By Cahmden Emmet Of course, Portland gets all the publicity about its fabulous restaurants in national publications. It seems that a new one opens each week and of course…one closes each week....

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wait ’til next New Years.

By emmet Naturally, I fell asleep and missed the ceremonies on New Year’s Eve. This year I got much closer and well asleep at 11:55 p.m. and woke up 11 minutes later. We celebrated with a Miranda’s...

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ice, ice, baby…in the toilet!

By frozen emmet All right, he isn’t the Most Interesting Man in the World. He doesn’t even drink Dos Equis. But he is the most interesting man on a dirt road in Jefferson, Maine. Of course, it is...

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That IS the Question.

Patriots By frightened Emmet I have become a modern day Hamlet, unable to decide whether to watch the Sunday football game between my beloved Patriots and the hated Denver Broncos…or to assume my...

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Free skiing! Ah, no!

Skiing By schussing emmet It’s pretty much the story of my life. Now that I can ski free at the Camden Snow Bowl because of my advanced age, I can no longer ski because of my advanced age. I suppose I...

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Florida and the Phillies.

Florida By frozen, brittle Emmet I’m going to Florida. You are not. My annual Spring training trip started in 1993 when Cabin Fever during a particularly bad winter (much like this one) forced me to...

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mumblety-peg

Bean’s By shopping Emmet I love L. L. Bean. On the rare (getting rarer) trips to Portland it is impossible to avoid the Freeport turnoff. Even if it is a weekend day and you know the place will be...

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