9 years ago this morning our world forever changed when our first grandchild, Taylor Jane, was born… everything was magnified a zillion times.  The joy.  The beauty.  The power of life.  The first moment I saw Taylor, with her raven hair and perfect face… I fell in love.  What we would see come from that [...]

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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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Yesterday was Jane’s birthday. Jane isn’t one to ask for things, even wish-list sorts of things for birthdays and Christmas, so I was pleasantly surprised when she told me last week that she really, really needs a vacuum cleaner for her NYC apartment… something small and light and easy to store for a, well, [...]

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29 years ago this morning, at 10:07 am, our little baby girl, Jane Hillary… who would forever be “our baby,” came into our world. Every moment since has been filled with laughter, delight, loveliness and LOVE!
Back in “those day” it wasn’t common to learn the gender of your baby before the actual moment, so [...]

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#1: Skydiving. Phew!
#2: Pole Dance Classes – 6 in all… ongoing.  Whoa!
Now for #’s 3 and 4 on Grandma’s List of 57 in 52:

#3: Mastering the Flip Turn (this one in a swimming pool… the other one on the pole!)

#4: Train for a 10k – (6.2 mile run)

Eh.  Okay.  Not as exhilarating and daring and [...]

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Grandma’s List… minus 1.
Today, I turn 57.
Today, I jumped out of an airplane at 10,000 feet and did a 40 second freefall at 120 mph… then my awesome tandem skydive guy Justin at Skydive Newport deployed our parachute at 5,000 feet above the ground for the most spectacular parachute ride over the magnificence of Newport, [...]

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I turn 57 today.  October 6th.
Well, my birth certificate lists my actual birth time at 10:38 am… but I’m taking the whole 24 hours, thank you very much, beginning right now at 12:00 midnight, October 6th.  As my Mom tells it… my Mom was staying with my Dad’s parents at their Michigan farm while my [...]

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Ah.  It was a day just like today.
4 years ago.
I awoke in New York City.  Just like today.  It was warm and windy with a touch of coolness, but gradually got warmer and warmer as the day progressed.  Just like today.
The difference is that 4 years ago we waited for Alexander Dimitri to arrive all [...]

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Five years ago tonight, at this very moment, Barry and Janie and I were traveling Rt.95 South on our way to NYC.
The evening didn’t start out this way.  Before our little detour, Barry and I were headed to Newport for dinner.  It was a spectacularly beautiful Friday evening, and I commented to Barry about the [...]

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Yesterday, Barry and I took our granddaughter, Taylor, on a little birthday outing.  It didn’t seem to matter to Taylor that her 8th birthday happened in JANUARY… and the promised outing came in SEPTEMBER.
Ah… time. It has a way of checking off minutes and days and weeks and months.
But back to Taylor’s special day.  She [...]

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