Kelly Salasin

Tag: new england

  • Cat Scan 3:00 a.m.

    Upon rising after three hours of sleep to sun streaming through crystallized trees in a tinsel-like forest, the late night trip to the Emergency Room seemed like a dream. When our eight-year old woke just after midnight with a throbbing headache followed by vomiting, we were scared. He had fallen at the ice skating rink that afternoon…

  • 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…