My Greatest Prank Ever This story begins at Christmas 2001 when I was seriously trying to become a science writer. I had completed three books which had some degree of success: one on Stephen Hawking, one on quantum theory and a third on solar eclipses. But this time I was engaged in something much more… Continue reading My Greatest Prank Ever – West Palm Beach 2001
The Night We Discovered London – 1965
I am writing a short preface to this blog post to warn readers that this piece quite long and was written back in 1965. In my enthusiasm for our new home – shortly after arriving in London from the USA – I recorded my first impressions of what was to be our main area of… Continue reading The Night We Discovered London – 1965
Tea With the Knights
Way back in 1974, when we were still getting settled in our family’s new home – i.e. the great metropolis of London – I was contacted by a former colleague of mine when I was on the faculty at Clark University. His name was Gil Markle, a larger-than-life character who was in the Philosophy Department during… Continue reading Tea With the Knights
A Walk To Vinca in Northern Italy – and Near Death in the Mountains
One morning in the summer of 2006 I went for a hike with my son Mark and my grandson Joel, toward Vinca – a town in the mountainous Lunigiana region of northern Italy where we have a home. It was a bright sunny day as we started to walk up through the beautiful valley at… Continue reading A Walk To Vinca in Northern Italy – and Near Death in the Mountains
An Afternoon at Fenway Park, 1970
The recent decision by the Boston Red Sox and several other major league baseball teams to increase the netting at their baseball stadiums to protect the fans in attendance, reminds me of an afternoon at Fenway Park back in the summer of 1970 when I decided to take my two sons to their first baseball… Continue reading An Afternoon at Fenway Park, 1970
Stephen Hawking and Me, Revisited
With the death yesterday of Stephen Hawking – the world’s favourite physicist – I was reminded of an extraordinary period in my life when I wrote a book about him. I decided to re-publish a blog I wrote about the experience a few years ago. To start at the beginning, I must go back to 1973… Continue reading Stephen Hawking and Me, Revisited
My Part in the History of the National Theatre
Regular readers of this blog may recall that in January 2015, I wrote a piece in this space titled A Sonnet for Sir Laurence. (See archive of this blog Jan 2015 https://jpmcevoy.com/2015/01/). There I described how I was inspired to write a fan letter – my only one ever – to Laurence Olivier after witnessing his thrilling… Continue reading My Part in the History of the National Theatre
Our Search for A Sandy Beach: Nine Out of Ten
We first discovered Broadstairs just after the Millennium celebrations, sometime in 2001. As empty-nesters in a London flat, we were interested in finding a seaside town in which we could purchase a second home as an investment – hopefully a town that had sandy beaches like those we were accustomed to in the United States.… Continue reading Our Search for A Sandy Beach: Nine Out of Ten
What I Did After High School
I am dedicating this blog to my dear sister Mary who passed away on Valentine’s Day, this year. In one of our last marathon trans-Atlantic telephone conversations, she implored me to return to my blogging, especially those about my personal experiences. She particularly enjoyed references to Camden Catholic, the high school which we both attended. … Continue reading What I Did After High School
I’m Back- A Birthday Wish
Hello Friends. 29 August, 2015 Sorry to have been so quiet for the last three months. I have been on holiday in Tuscany since mid – May and have not produced any blog posts. But now I’m… Continue reading I’m Back- A Birthday Wish