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In the early morning hours of Monday, September 2nd, a 75-foot commercial diving boat, the Conception, was wrapping up a Labor Day weekend excursion when it burst into blames off the coast of Santa Cruz Island in California.  Thirty-four people who were sleeping below deck were trapped.  They died pursuing […]

Lost at Sea

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The current interest in ancestry is all the rage–people looking for their roots.  I was blessed to have grown up with all four grandparents, several aunts and uncles and many, many cousins all living in close proximity. My BelovED was not so fortunate, but there were threads we were able […]

Edmond and Julia

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The seventeen-year-old was identified as Connor Joseph Golembiewski of Flemington, NJ, born on October 31st, 2001.  I had attended the wedding of his parents, Mike and Veronica, the year before.  His grandmother Mary was first cousin to My BelovED.  She had emigrated from Ireland as a teenager, lived across the […]

Honoring Connor

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Born in Rochester, NY, on June 8, 1891, her parents divorced when she was eight, and the girl and her mother moved to Providence, RI, where they lived until 1909, when they moved to NYC for her to pursue a career on the Broadway stage. While window shopping on Fifth […]

Fame Without A Name

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Michael was born on August 30, 1955, nine months and ten days after his teenage parents (John and Luanne) were married.  In the next two years he was joined by two sisters. Then John deserted his young family leaving his wife, at 21 years of age, to raise the children […]

Remembering Michael

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“Always pick one that’s lively.  That way you can tell it’s fresh.”  That was the first lesson I learned from my Dad about choosing the perfect beast for the feast.  Dissecting and devouring lobsters has been part of my life since I was ten.  My father had a great fondness […]

The Lively Lobster

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Today, September 5th, would have been her 47th birthday. Lori was born on the first day of school in 1971. She had an older brother who was born on Thanksgiving weekend three years before and then a younger brother born on the last day of school, June 23rd, 1977; significant […]

Daddy’s Girl

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……or What ever happened to Terp 57? We’ve all heard the expression “When one door closes, another opens,” but it’s up to each of us to walk through that second door and work to create a satisfying and successful life with our own talents and resources.  Here’s the story of […]

When One Door Closes……

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Do you remember the days of Rockwellian Americana as portrayed in It’s a Wonderful Life, Leave it to Beaver, and Father Knows Best, when milk was  delivered directly to consumers’ homes?  Customers would place their order with the milkman (it was almost always a “he”), and it would be delivered the next day […]

The Milkman Cometh No More

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She walked in late for a Bloggers class at Writers and Books, breathless and seemingly disorganized—tall and slim with short dark hair and dangling earrings, wearing a vintage outfit that paid homage to the Love Era of the 60’s.  Her entrance was like a gust of wind disrupting the calm.  […]

First Impression

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He was named after his father, Chester, and called Sonny as a youngster.  We knew each other as children because our parents were friends, and his father and uncle worked with my father on many church and community causes.  There was also a familial relationship: his mother’s sister was married […]

Remembering My First

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  It’s been forty-six years, but I can still feel the shock and disbelief I experienced at hearing the news.  My sister called to tell me she was listening to the radio and heard that there had been a tragic accident at St. Bonaventure University in New York:  a college student had […]
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