Reflections (Page 14)

Vinny

Admittedly, I am a little distracted this week and have only one thing prominently on my mind. Our first grandchild, Vinny, is due to arrive in this world on Wednesday, July 29, in Boston at the Children’s Hospital. As many of you already know he has been diagnosed with a heart defect. As of right […]

Concerned

O.K., is it safe to comment on the recent passage of the same sex marriage law? As of June 26, 2015 same sex couples have the right to be legally married in all 50 states. This is a federal ruling that has been creeping its way state by state for the last ten years. Those […]

Soul Care

My daughter, Laura, bought me a “Fit Bit” for Father’s Day. A FitBit is a little device that helps to monitor your activity level, eating and other areas of your health. It works wirelessly and somehow records all the information and transposes it onto the application on your computer. It is really amazing and helpful […]

Lap of Luxury

On Wednesday afternoon I literally sat in the lap of luxury.  On Tuesday night I got a phone call from my friend from childhood, Michael Hennessy (we met in Mrs. Katz’ – first grade class) inviting myself and my son James to Wednesday’s Yankee-Phillies game at Yankee Stadium.  And these were not any ordinary tickets. […]

One More Day

Dear Dad, I sometimes think about  if I had one more day with you…a healthy you…what would I do?  What would I say, that I couldn’t say to you as you lying dying in a hospital bed in August of 1991.  Had I known that you would not make it through the night I probably […]

You Can’t Take It With You

We are having a garage sale on Saturday. Actually, we are not selling our garage but the contents of our garage…and our attic…and our closets…and different rooms in our house. There are some things of value and many things that don’t have so much value. But as some say, one man’s garbage is another man’s […]

Whom, Not What

We had an interesting and somewhat humorous conversation at dinner tonight.  The topic was: “If you had one last meal to eat, what would you choose it to be?”  Mine was simple; Depending on what I was in the mood for that day it would be either Susan’s spaghetti and meatballs or a nice, juicy […]

Screen Protection

Monday was Memorial Day and the unofficial beginning of summer. And fittingly, it was fairly warm, around 78 degrees when we pulled into our driveway around 8:30 p.m. but beginning to cool down. Our house had been closed up all day so the first thing I wanted to do was open the windows and put […]

Days Of Memorial

It is Memorial Day weekend. Time to put on the grill, have a cookout and begin the summer. But also a time to remember why we have a Memorial Day in the first place. I think President Lincoln keep us aligned with why we have these days of remembrances as he wrote in the Gettysburg […]

Celebrate

  When you think of the word “celebrate”, what image comes to mind?  Maybe it is something like the one pictured above of the New York Ranger’s Derek Stepan (and the fans) “celebrating” his game winning overtime goal against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night, thus advancing his team to the next round of the […]