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 […]
The title above was also the title of my latest Toastmaster speech this past Monday night. I had waited until the last minute like I often did when looking for something to talk about and then I said, well, I’m gaining weight again. Why not talk about how, at my age(54)it’s pretty important that I […]
This past Monday night, Annette, Eric and I returned from Winston-Salem, North Carolina after helping him clean out his dorm, store away some of his things in one of the storage lockers that they have for students. This was just one of a few things we did on our short trip. For most of the […]
The sun was out and the temperature was around 70 degree, so Ann and I thought it would be a perfect day to take a hike. Little did we know how difficult which, in turn, made this hike a great subject for my next Toastmasters speech. Toastmasters is an organization that operates clubs worldwide promoting […]
I have belonged to this place since it opened back in 2016, and, let me tell you, I plan on sticking around as long as I’m able to. The gym is operated by Kareem and Nina Blue, who offer a class to people with Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and other similar neurological disorders. From […]
It was only a week, but that felt like a month to me as our son, Eric, came back from his school in North Carolina(UNCSA) for spring break with two friends and fellow students,Elise and Ron, and showed them a little bit of Connecticut. They just left last Friday and began making their way back […]
Like this blogs’ title says, my goal during this speech was to let others-11 on this night- know a little about me, to open up some, so I spoke about being the youngest of 10 kids, of how we were(and still are a close group. I went on to talk about my love of sports […]
As I woke this morning, I realized that it was now February, February 1st in fact. This meant that it was dads’ birthday. Though he is no longer with us, I’m willing to bet that mom and him will celebrate his special day. Anybody reading this who knew them well may recall that my parents […]
Early Thursday night, Ann and Eric headed back to North Carolina to drop Eric off for his spring semester. Looking outside, I’m glad that they went when they did because we got quite a bit of snow and had they waited, they might not have gotten back there with the ease that they did. After […]
When a few of us gathered at my sister Sharon and husband Travis’s house yesterday afternoon for this small party, more than half of my family was there- Sheila, Kathy, Steve, Sharon, Maureen and myself. As a family, we try to pull this off each year but, of course, covid pushed those plans aside last […]
Ann and I’s trip down to North Carolina began at the crazy hour of 2AM on 11/24. No, that’s not a typing error that you see here, that was the actual time that we left. Amazing! This way, we could miss most of the heavy traffic and that’s exactly how it worked for us where, […]
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