Jo Ann Augeri Silva

No differing this time — in fact, I'm delighted. The coverage in this and last week's Current featuring the Marblehead Festival of Arts brought back a surge of happy memories. Anthony and Jo Ann Silva on the steps of the Old Town House were auctioneers at the former Marblehead Festival of Arts Art Auction. COURTESY PHOTOS We arrived in Marblehead in 1970. Pregnant and anxious and living in midtown, we were oblivious to all the activities going on around Abbot Hall and Crocker Park. By…

Have you ever made a mistake? Forget a date or a birthday, call someone by the wrong name, slip up on a fact, show up in the wrong place at the wrong time, blurt out something you thought you were only thinking? Of course. Even the most punctilious of us gets the occasional thing wrong. Stuff happens. And then, what to do about it? We've had some bad role models about this in the past several years — people who are so thin-skinned and/or so…

On the flight home from our most recent trip, my husband forwarded me a New Yorker article that lambasted travel. Right. We are traveling, and he wants me to read something by a person who hates traveling. Makes all the sense in the world. Jo Ann Augeri Silva Our friends and family know well that, other than seeing them, what we missed most during the height of the pandemic was traveling. As a couple, we agreed many years ago that we’d prefer to live frugally…

Ah, politics. This is a presidential election year, so we are going to be bombarded with political ads, political discussions, talking heads talking about politics and family members and friends driving you to distraction with their political opinions. Ad nauseam. I used to be a news junkie. We were a media couple, my husband and I, working at different levels of news reporting but equally engaged in (obsessed with?) what went on in the world. We ruined a perfectly lovely Italian vacation in November 2000…