It seems simple enough… but really is the most happy discovery of humankind – COOKING.  To go one ingredient further, COOKING a family feast is right up there with world harmony. But COOKING a family feast with the help of grandchildren is an incomparable soul-stirring adventure!
On Thanksgiving Day, our children and grandchildren traditionally head out [...]

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Today, as I was organizing and straightening and cleaning for my Thanksgiving company, I was thinking of my mother-in-law, Flo. Flo LOVED the holidays. She LOVED to entertain. She LOVED to cook and bake and plan a special treat for each person… my Thanksgiving treat was always homemade mince pie. Flo always [...]

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I remember the days when I was a young Mommy with 4 young kids, and every once-in-a-while I got to spend an afternoon with one child… One-on-One. Most times this little time-gift wasn’t planned. It just happened because it just did. And that time-gift wasn’t about going somewhere and doing something, but [...]

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There are so many moments in life that we wish will last forever. There are so many things that we never want to forget… especially words. And when it comes to grandchildren, I think the wishing to capture everything takes on a whole new meaning.
Especially the words. The made-up ones. [...]

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I’m on my way to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular in New York City, Barry’s and my annual Christmas gift to our children and grandchildren… all 19 of us! And I’m thinking of a perfect Christmas letter to Santa from my archives. It’s a letter my mother wrote to Santa in 1931…

As a [...]

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When I put Pole Dancing as #2 on my List of 57 in 52 (57 things/challenges/fears/desires to accomplish in 52 weeks… from my 57th birthday on October 6th ’til next October 6th ), I did so as with great trepidation. I mean… well, facing my fears of flying and heights with skydiving on my [...]

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I don’t remember where I got the little dark blue felt skirt with the big white ice skate applique on the front of it. I only remember loving it. As I think about it, it was most likely a gift from one of my aunts back in Boston… one of my Mom’s three [...]

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I still remember the night like it was yesterday. A telephone call on a March Friday night at Tav Vino’s Restaurant in Warren, RI. Barry and I were sitting at the bar, and I even remember what I was eating… steamed mussels. Ah, a phone call. Barry kept repeating over and [...]

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I never, ever, in a million years ever thought that these words may pertain some day to me…
Outside it is winter. But in here it’s so hot.
Every night we have to battle with the girls to keep
them from taking off all their clothings. So don’t go
away. Who knows? Tonight we may lose the battle!
And [...]

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This morning on Facebook, I read the story of 5-year old Noah Biorkman… how Noah is in the last stages of a 2 1/2 year struggle against Neuroblastoma Cancer, and how this weekend will be Christmas for Noah and his family. The Facebook entries request that Christmas cards be mailed to Noah, as Christmas [...]

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