First One Of The Season. #notDQ #DairyDip #celebritypizza #icecream

Was at this event and the best part was seeing all the folks wearing their Cancer Votes stickers hours after the debate. 

Cancer Votes Massachusetts was out last week at the U.S. Senate candidate debate in Springfield, MA, the third of four scheduled debates between Rep. Scott Brown (R) and Elizabeth Warren (D).

Cancer Votes volunteers and staff spent time talking with supporters from both campaigns about why cancer needs to be a national priority, and six volunteers and staff were able to attend the sold-out debate.

And Cancer Votes volunteer Pat Spain from North Andover gave several interviews to reporters, including one with NPR!

According to Cancer Votes staffer Patricia Mallios, volunteers and staff were able to meet a lot of people and many of them kept their stickers on during the debate and were interested in hearing about Cancer Votes.

Photos: Cancer Votes volunteers Ellen Croibier, Peter Levine, Pat Spain, Anna Nguyen, Nora Wallace and staff Patricia Mallios, Erica Concors and Whitney Thomas and supporters of both candidates.

from mouth taped shut. shooting a scene inside a car inside a...soundstage? wha? but it's cool, no?

jim #waylatergram

Bill, Kerry Brett celebrate Boston women

- Photographer Bill Brett, whose “Party Lines” feature runs weekly in the Globe, was at the new Smith & Wollensky last night celebrating his new book, “Boston Inspirational Women,” a collection of photos of some of Boston’s most prominent women that he shot with his daughter, photographer Kerry Brett.

Timely with the Series starting tonight in Boston against...the Cardinals

The Red Sox-Cardinals World Series starting tonight in Boston is the fourth time the two teams have played for Major League Baseball’s championship. The first Series, in 1946, was a low point in the otherwise stellar career of Ted Williams.

Williams did not get one extra base hit in the seven-game Series won by the Cardinals, managed just five singles and struck out five times for a .200 batting average. He did reach base five more times through walks. And a combination of good defense and the shift took away several potential extra base hits on balls that Ted hit on the nose. But that was part of Cardinals Manager Eddie Dyer’s plan.

When it was all over, Ted gave St. Louis its due, singling out pitcher Harry “The Cat’’ Brecheen as the Series hero for winning two of the games. “I think his mere presence on the field inspired the Cardinals,’’ Ted said. “I had hoped my bat would do the talking for me in the Series, but it was tongue-tied by some great Cardinal pitching.”

When the writers and photographers were allowed in the clubhouse, Williams sat woefully on the bench in front of his locker, hunched over, staring at the floor, disconsolate. Pitcher Mickey Harris sat next to him and struck a similar pose, and the two were pictured in a bleak tableau in the next day’s Boston Globe.

Ted was the last player to dress and the last to leave the clubhouse. Outside the locker room door, scores of Cardinal fans were lying in wait for him, hurling invective inside. “Where’s Williams?” they screamed. “Where’s Superman?” When he finally came out, the fans had formed two raging lines on either side of the door, forcing Ted to run the gauntlet of abuse. Police stood by, watching only to make sure he was not assaulted. 

Williams took the insults impassively, yearning now only for the train, and the privacy of his own compartment for the long ride back to Boston. When the team finally reached the train, Ted made his way to his room, shut the door and wept. After a time, when he looked out the window, he saw scores of people gawking at him, a mix of glee and malice in their eyes. 

(Photo: Ted Williams during the 1946 World Series. Brearley Collection.)

Apparently my dad, Jim Beggy, is still alive and living at Cusack Terrace in Arlington. Someone not happy about the doggie do...

So @sidecardoughnuts gave out free samples today for #nationaldonutday even though they don't open for another week. #SantaMonica #sidecardoughnuts #huckleberry

Perfectly said.

Yaa Gyasi at Brooklyn Public Library, 6/13/16

thank you @lilibpage for the very chic tote bag. yes, you can have a chic tote bag.

the people waiting to stampede the exhibition floor at BookExpo America #bea15 No, thank you. I'm down at the #Starbucks, my mom and sisters have made sure my Starbucks card is fully charged and then...so am I. #BookMadness