Mimi Torchia Boothby

Category: biographical

  • Juried into an art show, no, TWO art shows

    We never really think much about how those paintings hanging on walls in art galleries got there. What is it all about? This summer I responded to two different invitations to juried art shows. A juried show is one where someone decides whose paintings will appear in the show. Then they are judged, and winners…

  • Mail art – a life long love affair

    When I was six, we moved away from the street where I had lived for my entire life. We had lived in 3 different apartments there before life as I knew it shattered forever. It seemed that my two best friends, one, a girl named Roberta, and the other, a boy named Michael O’Hara, were…

  • Laurie Rose

    Once there was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very very good. No wait, that’s not the story. When I was just newly married, my husband raved about a little niece of his. She was adorable. She was the fourth…

  • Thomas Josiah Boothby, Junior

    My husband, Donald, had a special sparkle to his personality. He was extremely verbal and witty, full of energy, engaging and could be rather sarcastic. Imagine my surprise upon meeting his uncle, who had become estranged from the family in my husband’s infancy, and discovering they displayed the same personality characteristics. At this time in…

  • My Grandfather, Tom Torchia

    Every kid deserves at least one grandparent that dished out unconditional love. Amidst all the squalor of my parents’ divorce, he was the one person who was like the calm in the center of the storm. My grandfather always had a lap for us kids, always had a smile. My grandfather left Italy right before…