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A Rose is a Rose is a Rose…..Right? Nope.

A rose is just a rose is the saying.  Another is a rose by any other name is still a rose.  But what if the cost of just one rose could make a difference in a child’s life.  What if instead of giving 12 roses to your loved one this year you only gave eleven. […]

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My Daughter Risks Her Life Tonight……What Will Yours Do???????

The ambulance driver, in his rescue car, pulled in our driveway.  “Do you want to come in?” “No.  I’m good.  Need to be by the radio.” “OK. Busy?”  I ask. “Nonstop.”  He answers. I enter in the house as Kaitlyn leaves.  She is not planning to stay the night… “But I don’t know.  In any […]

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Do You Know Mr. Make-Sure? Don’t You Wish You Didn’t?

I want it back the way it was. We dug out for 7 hours yesterday.  The official results is that our little town in Medford, Long Island was hit the hardest with 33 inches.  I measured 31 inches but who am I to squabble at two inches. Just as we were finishing, some friends of […]

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Who Digs Us Out????

As I had my morning coffee, today, the day after the big storm, I looked out the window at the magnitude of what will lie ahead for us today.  A whole lot of digging.  Those of us who were hit by the storm will have a choice; dig out alone or enlist the entire family to grab […]

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Are you ready???? Share your best tips also.

Those of us in the Northeast are buckling down for the incoming major storm.   Again.  This time; snow.  We will cope.  We are ready. Are you? I was speaking to someone recently and the discussion for ‘preparedness’ came up and I cannot stress that ‘back-up’ plans are okay but back-up for the back-up will  make […]

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Time to Say Good-Bye!!! And Thanks……..

I think back to that day, that September 26th, 1992 day; so very often. The trip up to Stony Brook Hospital.  The day Kaitlyn was diagnosed. Perhaps my observation training as an actor, perhaps that observation training as a parent.  The smell of the hospital.  The scenery as you drive up to the hospital at […]