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 hour north to a hospital [...]

Last Friday I was visiting my Mom as she recuperated from surgery.  She was anxious to get up and to walk around… stretch her legs and feel her body in motion.  My Mom has always been a swirl of energy! My Mom was attached to about a million or so tubes of various lengths and needed a nurse for assistance [...]

7 years ago today was very much like today… a balmy, lovely late September day. It was a perfect day for apple picking. Well, if we weren’t waiting for a baby, that is. Our entire family had traveled from Rhode Island to New York City to welcome Audrey and Matt’s first baby.  We knew the baby was a boy.  We [...]

Family and friends and lots of kids… including 9 grandkids! The 4th of July. A truly old-fashioned backyard BBQ. A Reddi-wip just-the-right-size-for-kids-and-adults dessert table filled with cool & summery, light & creamy, fresh & delicious fruit desserts!  Luscious strawberries, blueberries and bananas. Pineapple slices. Vanilla Wafers.  Strawberry Jam. Pretzels.  Granola. Graham crackers. Chocolate syrup.  Honey.  Individual parfait cups.  Creativity.  Fun [...]

I hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July weekend! There aren’t many times right now in my life where I get the chance to hang out with my ENTIRE family. Usually someone has to be somewhere else, and truth be told, lately that person’s been me. There’s nothing I cherish more than family… and I will say, I’ve been [...]

Rayovac: Time to Change Batteries, Twitter Party and FREE Batteries! Oh, yes… all 3 things! Spring is almost (almost) here! Thank goodness because I have had enough of the snow. I have had enough of the cold.  I have had enough of staying indoors. And I have had enough of the puffer coats and boots. I’m ready for tanks and [...]

I moved to NYC right after I graduated Brown University… It was always my dream to live there.  OK… in a way, I thought I wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw.  There were just 2 things that were preventing me (in a good way) from living out that dream. 1. I moved to NYC with Matt… so I was never actually [...]

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 the tinkling lights and little red sled ornament, in the window of our living room… for all passersby to see.  We [...]

My sons are my life.  They mean everything in the world to me.  They are my reason for being.  They are my inspiration.  And they are… well, my guys. Yesterday we were walking and I caught this photo of them… I don’t know why this photo made my eyes well up with tears, but it did.  They were so excited [...]

When I signed up for the Amica Providence 70.3 Ironman, I don’t think I really, really ever thought the day would come to actually have to do it. The race was weeks away… well, months, really. I thought it would be such a challenge to add to my 57 things I wanted to do in 52 weeks of my 57th [...]