Even though it was almost a month after our actual wedding date(6/17), Ann and I vowed that we were going to renew our wedding vows this year. Yesterday morning, we finally put our words into action by renewing our vows at our church without any problems at all. After all, we had reached a pretty […]
I feel like the luckiest man on earth writing this, with today marking what has been the best 20 years of marriage to the most incredible woman a man could ever ask for in someone like my wife, Ann. As a way to celebrate our super achievement, Ann, our son Eric and I decided […]
On Saturday night, Ann and I enjoyed another of Erics’ shows- A Chorus Line- and as usual it was great. Eric was super too. Playing the part of Greg,Eric sang when he had to but, in my opinion, it was how well he portrayed his character, a 32-year old homosexual man. As Greg, Eric brought […]
That it I am talking about is learning Spanish, something that I barely managed to do many years ago in my last Spanish class-high school- but that I held my own with last night when Ann and I began our online Spanish class. The teacher for our class, Spanish is Fun was a woman named […]
It feels like just yesterday, but was actually closer to about 17 years ago that Ann and I took Eric to his first school/day care environment. In just a few days, Eric will begin his senior year of high school, an honor student preparing to cap an amazing four-year run and move on to […]
What I am about to write about is simply a lunch that I had earlier yesterday with one of my brothers, Steve, and one of my friends, Mike. Seeing as how how all three of us take eating pretty seriously, we agreed that lunch at The Berkshire Cafe in Torrington was the the perfect choice. […]
When Buddy- one of our dogs and I- reached the store that we go to down the street from our house each morning, I grabbed something to drink and then made my way to the cash register to ring out. Suddenly, a one of the guys who works there-I’ll call him Gump- greeted me and […]
I woke up this morning, began reading today’s paper and noticed that the date was August 4. On this date 32 years ago, my brothers, sisters and I lost one of our true heroes: our mother, Ethel Riley, after she passed away far earlier than any of us would have wanted her too. As would […]
The sunflower fields on the Buttonwood Farms in Granby really woke me up to the potential and obvious beauty of certain natural plants and flowers. On what was the first day of the Butterwoods Farms Sunflower Festival, Ann, who had learned of this gem of a place online, and I never enjoyed the whole festival […]
Not to anyone I know, you see, but to complete strangers whom I am linked to by the fact that they, too, have epilepsy and to see how those other people try and handle the great daily uncertainties that epilepsy brings to those inflicted with it. There has been a nice site-I won’t say which […]
When Ann first talked about taking a ride down to Pennsylvania to check out what I now know is the beautiful Bushkill Falls in the Pocono Mountains, I didn’t exactly burst with enthusiasm. She, of course, had checked it out online and, I believe, been told by friends that they were certainly worth seeing. Not […]
