A New Year’s Day Cookie Disaster Averted
January 2, 2012 by Sharon
Filed under Family, Family FEAST, Sharon
Each New Year’s Day, Barry and I prepare a Family Feast of Foods wrapped in legends, myths & cultures that welcome in the New Year with Health, Happiness, Fertility & Abundance… There’s Pork, Rice, Picked Herring, Lentil Soup, Cabbage, Black-eye Peas, Collard Greens, Kale, Cornbread, Donuts, Grapes, Clementines, Apples, Pomegranates, Unbroken Noodles… Then the Round [...]
The Faces of Metastatic Breast Cancer
I don’t know when I first heard about Breast Cancer, but I know I was a young girl. One of my friend’s mother’s had Breast Cancer, and I remember my mother telling me about it. I couldn’t have been more than 10 or 12 years old. I still remember it leaving an impression on me. [...]
My Aunt Ruth
My Aunt Ruth is gravely ill… an all-of-a-sudden blast out-of-no-where of how-can-this-be? This is Aunt Ruth. Lively. Funny. Vibrant. Opinionated. Beautiful. Brilliant. The rock, the glue, the very legs of my Mom’s family… I got the message about Aunt Ruth from her granddaughter, my cousin Gina, two days ago. Yesterday, I drove my Mom the [...]
Holiday Photos with PhotoOp NYC
It’s DECEMBER! And you know what that means, right? It’s Holiday Photo season! It’s crazy to say, but the only time we ever pose or even think about getting the boys ready for a family photo is right around the beginning of December. I love to send cards with their photo on it so our [...]
My Mother’s Letter to Santa, written on December 12, 1931
My Mom’s Letter to Santa is dated December 12, 1931 and written in the careful penmanship of a little girl dazzled by Christmas and Santa. This is how that precious letter came into my hands all these decades letter. The story is one for Santa himself… ************************************************************************************ My Mother’s Letter to Santa: December 12, 1931 [...]
The Christmas Lesson –
The Christmas TIME “FLYER” December 15, 2010 by Sharon (Edit) Filed under Grandparenting, Sharon 3 Comments Barry and I have decorated our home for the holidays. We’ve hung the stockings with care. We’ve kissed little cheeks under the mistletoe. We’ve decked the halls with boughs of holly. And we’ve placed Flo’s little Christmas Tree, with [...]
Great-Grandma Rita is back in action!
3 weeks ago this morning, I sat for hours in the “family room” of my local hospital, waiting for the silent footsteps of my Mom’s surgeon… to tell me the news of my Mom’s surgery. It had been an emotional early morning (albeit entertaining afternoon). I tried to read. I studied the pattern of the [...]
The Egg Salad snub…
To understand the title of this post, you must first understand how a talent for Egg Salad has been passed from generation to generation to generation to generation. It’s in the DNA. If you’re counting, that’s 4 generations… and I’m not in on any of these generations. But my husband Barry is. And my daughter [...]
Craving Beef Stew
It was on Saturday afternoon that I began to crave Beef Stew. It was raining… slushing, really, here in Rhode Island. It was cold. Chills cold. And a rare Halloween weekend snowstorm was in the forecast for Saturday night into Sunday morning. Of course I craved Beef Stew! I grew up with meat. I came [...]
Claw Toy Machine aka “The Loser Machine” becomes a winner!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my grandson Ben and a little stuffed animal he “won” in one of those Claw Toy Machines… aka (in my household) The Loser Machine. I think I totally caved into The Loser Machine hype when I wrote: I now think all of those stuffed animals in the [...]
