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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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What Will Happen in Washington?
They are on their way to Washington. Seems that letters went out to the many of 150 children who were chosen as delegtes for the JDRF Children’s Congress. When I was part of the program we called it the ‘Run Up the Hill’, a great choice on the name now used. The testimony and the […]