Yesterday we attended the Japan Festival at Boston City Hall Plaza. As you would expect at an event like that, there were lots of balloons and children… and a lot of popped balloons. With memories still fresh of the Boston Marathon bombing five weeks ago, I wasn’t the only who one jumped when balloons went *POP!*
The Japan Festival was incident-free but then, mid-afternoon, sirens could be heard. A lot of sirens. They were for a Japanese scientist who was the victim of a traffic accident while riding her bicycle in another part of the city. She was pronounced dead at the scene. As soon as I heard the news, I wondered if she was on her way home from the festival.