January 30th, 2013
Senator O'Connor Ives with her staff
Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives with her staff at the Massachusetts State House. From right to left:
Maria Syrniotis - Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director
Chris Power - Scheduler
Hailey Klein - Chief of Staff
State Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives
Michael Gallant - Constituent Services Coordinator
Dennis Marcelo - District Director
Senator O'Connor Ives with Mike Costello
With State Representative for the First Essex District, Mike Costello, at the Massachusetts State House.
Senator O'Connor Ives at the State House
Senator O’Connor Ives in the Massachussetts State House Senate Chamber.
Senator O'Connor Ives Haverhill Office Hours
Senator O’Connor Ives first Office Hours at the Haverhill Public Library on Friday, January 18. Office hours will be held in every city and town in the First Essex District.
Senator Kathleen O'Connor Ives at the MLK Breakfast
With Nancy Earls at the Martin Luther King Breakfast where Nancy was honored with the YWCA 2013 Peace Award. The article can be read here.
The Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House.
You can visit State Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives Facebook page here.
(Photographs used with permission, from Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives’ Facebook page.)
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January 25th, 2013
The Bushee estate on Newman Road has been demolished for a subdivision. That’s a “Yikes.”
“The home that carried her ( Florence E. Bushee) name boasted a twin chimney 2 1/2-story colonial with 13 rooms and eight open fireplaces, ornamental gardens, a carriage house, a post and beam cow barn and multi-stall horse barn.” Newburyport Daily News, January 25, 2102
The entire article can be read here (it’s worth reading!!).
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January 4th, 2013
Kathleen O'Connor Ives being sworn in as State Senator
Kathleen O’Connor Ives was sworn in as our new First Essex District State Senator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
Senator O’Connor Ives contact information:
State House
Room 74
Boston, MA 02133
617-722-1604
Kathleen.O’ConnorIves@masenate.gov
Hailey Klein - Chief of Staff
Maria Syrniotis - Deputy Chief of Staff, Legislative Director
Dennis Marcelo - District Director
Michael Gallant - Constituent Services Coordinator
Chris Power - Scheduler
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January 1st, 2013
In my new fascination with my burgeoning photoshop project (I am mulling an actual name), I am curious about the images that I choose.
The latest image is from someone who, at this point I know only as “katmystiry.” I have emailed “katmystiry,” and maybe I will know more about whoever this might be, but at the moment it is just an anonymous username and a “mystery.”
The image that I photoshoped away at is of a robin nesting.
Photoshop Robin Nesting, thanks katmystiry
The first thing that comes to mind is part of a poem that my wonderful son wrote way back in May of 2006, which I keep over my desk.
“i look under my bed
and see hundreds of feathers
i am content in my mother’s nest”
When I asked my son how he came about this incredibly moving for moi poetic tidbit, he told me, in college at the time, that he had a feather pillow that leaked, and literally there were hundreds of feathers when he looked under his bead.
And this year, lo 6 year later, my son got married. And as I marvel at these lovely newlyweds, I think about them “nesting,” and am glad that my son is now so content in his newly married nest.
And then there is the empty-nest thing.
And then I wonder what a “back-story” could be on this photoshoped robin sitting on her photoshop nest. I remember being a new mom, feeding my son in the very early hours of the morning, wondering if there were other moms out there like me, sitting alone with their child in the dark. And to me, this robin reminds me of those nights so many years and decades long ago.
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