Early last evening, Barry and I headed over the bridge (for you Rhode Islanders) to join our daughter Jane and her fiance Brian at their new home. Their new home is not really new… it’s 1900 new and in Bristol, a beautiful harbor town on a quiet street. On our way to meet Jane & Brian, I was thinking how [...]

My granddaughter Taylor asked me to tell her a story about her Daddy when he was a little boy. We were eating dinner at a local restaurant, right after the Boys & Girls Club Swimming Championships, in which Taylor and her brother Andrew had participated and kicked fin! The restaurant was fun, busy kind-of noisy and we were there with [...]

In a recent post, Liz from Mom-101 so eloquently wrote, “I live my life with one pinky toe in the past. I’m unapologetically nostalgic.” I’m glad to know I’m in good company. I definitely do not live in the past; rather, I find joy in remembering good times from my past… the people, places and things that have left lasting [...]

Last night my mom, dad, Audrey and I went out to dinner to celebrate Audrey’s 31st birthday. Yes, her birthday was a week earlier, on May 23, but it fell on Memorial Day weekend, and it was a pretty jam-packed weekend at that, so the birthday dinner was pushed to May 30. It’s funny that Audrey wrote a post just [...]

One of the good things about living back at home with my parents right now is that since they live about a mile from Audrey and her family – and Audrey’s boys pretty much love nothing more than going over to Grandma and Pop-up’s house – I get to see my nephews (or at least some combination of the 4!) [...]

I always knew that I had a special relationship with my mom. But it took me awhile longer to realize that not every daughter had a mother like mine. I guess, when I was younger, I thought that all mothers were just like mine. I thought that all mothers woke their daughters each morning with a loving kiss and a [...]

If I’m walking like I just learned to walk (come to think of it, it’s not a matter of if at all), there’s a good reason for it. My legs took me on a 26.2 jaunt on Sunday from Providence, RI to my hometown of Barrington, RI – and back – for the Cox Providence Marathon, my first-ever marathon. I [...]

When Audrey and I were younger, even though we each had our own rooms, we preferred to sleep together on the pull-out couch in our parents’ bedroom. We call it the pull-out-couch era. I don’t remember when or why it started – or even when or why it ended. I was probably around 9 or 10 years old, and Audrey [...]

I was visiting my favorite Libra girl… and happened on “a long meme” that she borrowed from That Bitchy Chick. Yes, it is L-O-N-G… but I was completely captured by the first question. Here it is: How did you get one of your scars? Now, I am assuming that this question relates to physical scars, but I am sure that [...]

Ugly ducklings. Proms and formal dances. Boyfriends. Heartbreak. Why do these things always go hand-in-hand? And why do we always seem to have photographs to remind us? Miss Britt the Magnificent (because she is) had to go and write a couple of moving posts that got me thinking about these oftentimes painful reminisces that truly (although we have no way [...]