Category: Sons

  • the Sea of Miracles

    for Jesse and Susannah by Kelly Salasin “And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.” Walt Whitman I want to write about miracles, but I don’t know how. There must be some outstanding event from my blessed life to retell, but no single moment splashes up for attention. Has my life been without…

  • Philly, Foreign & Familiar

    Kelly Salasin In the span of one season, this unlikely sports fan is back in the stands at another professional baseball game– this time in Philadelphia. Two decades in New England has made this mid-Atlantic city a stranger to me.   From parking-lot tailgaters to street cops to peddlers, the faces and attitudes in Philly…