Carla Merolla Odell
Personalized Portraiture
By the time you read this, more than a month will have passed since I fell in love with Jennifer Lawrence. To be frank, I was not rooting for her to win for Best Actress that last Sunday night in February. To be franker, I wasn’t rooting for anyone. I have no interest...
My mother had prepared me: “Your father and I redecorated your room.” My first thought was that they’d torn down my Robert Plant posters and painted over the tape marks. “It’s different,” Mom continued. Maybe, I thought, they turned my bedroom into a den. Yay! I’ll...
I don’t remember the Kennedy presidency, but I do remember thinking the name of the little girl in the tulle dress sounded like mine. And the two tall dark-haired Johnson girls – well, they were tall to an 8 year old – seemed interchangeable. I do recall a wedding...
Most everything you read in monthly magazines has been written a couple months earlier; but dtown has a nice, comfortable “closing” date, and I don’t need to get this column in till mid-month. But stuck in the house once again after last night’s ice storm, listening...
The metal gates on storefronts from Chelsea to Virginia Avenues rattled up with a crash. Concession workers slowly pushed couples in high-backed wicker rolling chairs. And for the kids in town, the amusement piers reopened. ...On Easter Sunday, after its winter nap,...