I am Blessed

Last week marked the end of an incredible love story. My sister’s husband – the love of her life – died of a heart attack – the day before his fifty-eighth birthday. But the story starts years ago. 53 years ago, today, she was hit by a moving van. At the tender age of six…

Originally, I had planned to write more about Christmas traditions this week as the house now looks like Christmas threw up on it, as my kids used to like to say. But since decorating, I’ve returned to Long Island to help my sister pack for her big move. This is the sister that lost her…

Last week I shared about the Cherry Blossom run – a beautiful 10 mile run in Washington DC at the peak of the Cherry Blossom bloom. Thousands of people run this race. It’s impeccably organized and has all the amenities of a big race. Annapolis has a sister race that they lovingly call the Cherry…

Have you ever tried to exercise your face? Over the last three years while waiting for the facial nerves to regenerate I’ve had the pleasure of figuring this out. Given that some of the facial muscles have not been able to work at all during these three years they are terrible ‘out of shape’. Over…

Today the shacks are classified as historic and thus are safe (for now). When Pa built the place it was just him. Then he had four children who each had a bunch of kids. Then each of those kids had kids, and so on. Now reservations are needed to get time at the shack. I…

As I said earlier the shack is my haven of peace. It’s where I go when I need to sort out my life. I spent some time there after each of my divorces as I needed to figure out what next. I needed to determine out who I was as an individual and what was…