I couldn’t bring myself to do my Dad’s eulogy last year at his funeral Mass, but our son was kind enough to deliver one (and did a great job). However, when my mom passed away this year, I knew that I was the only one who could share her life story at her funeral Mass. […]
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Tradition, Tradition… Tradition!
If you’re not a fan of Fiddler on the Roof, you may not get this reference, but regardless, the thought of traditions came to mind at a women’s luncheon that I attended in December. We were doing an ice-breaker event at our table, and one of the questions was, “Does your family have any holiday […]
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The Book That Took on a Life of Its Own
By November of 2023, I had my writing mapped out for the year 2024. First would be completing the sixth book in my Heaven Intended Civil War series and then writing the sequel to my time travel novel Anything But Groovy. You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men, […]
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The End of an Era
When my mom had emergency surgery in 2017 to repair a ruptured colon, I was hopeful that she’d recover easily enough, move back into her two-story house, and get on with her active retirement life. That wasn’t meant to be. The long surgery brought about post-operative delirium and the end of her days of […]
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My husband John and I have been Beatles fans since we were kids back in the 1970s. That infatuation extended to Paul McCartney & Wings and then later to Paul McCartney as a solo act. When the Paul McCartney World Tour was announced in 1989, we knew that if he was performing anywhere in the […]
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