A Heavenly Summer Wind

April 11th, 2013
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Happy Birthday Love today to a Special Person in Heaven.
The Birthday Boy was an abrupt-on-the-outside, marshmellow-on-the-inside kind of a guy who was my husband and my friend for 17 years plus.  He was an old school kind of Dad to five talented and fantastic children and took a HUGE amount of pride in his work as an award-winning reporter/writer.

He never forgot his New Jersey roots, having been born and raised in Red Bank, and was a die hard Giants and Yankees fan.  He loved everything about New Jersey: the infamous jokes about exits, the rumble tumble way of

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Mele Kalikimaka — A Hawaiian Christmas Song

December 26th, 2012
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Aloha!! This is a Christmas song that you may not have heard before but it is a song that I know from my childhood. My Dad is a big Bing Crosby fan and he would always play this song every Christmas. My sister (the one who is my Irish twin) and I thought it was a very funny song because it has a funny title and is about Christmas in Hawaii and “the land where palm trees sway.”  While dressed in our pajamas, my sister and I would get up and perform for the rest of the family and sing… Read More