For as long as I can remember, my mom was a Girl Scout Leader — long before I was old enough to be a Girl Scout myself, or even a Brownie. And for a few days in 1964, our community's Intermediates and Seniors went on a bus trip to the New York World's Fair. (Before ...
For the first twenty years of my life, I was a city kid. I grew up in Forest Hills, which is part of Jamaica Plain, which is one of the 21 neighborhoods of Boston. Yep, 21 neighborhoods. Brookline is *not* a Boston neighborhood. It's a separate city. Do not let people ...