Pearls of Wisdom – Starting the Dialogue with your Aging Parents: Subject Gratitude

Starting the Dialogue with your Aging Parents: Subject Gratitude. Anyone with aging parents or other family members will get a great deal of support information from the Starting the Dialogue Blog (hey that rhymes).  Anyway, the point is - keeping people positive and grateful is important regardless of age, but age has its ways of trying …

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More Yummy Stuff from Jovina – In The Mood For A Sandwich?

In The Mood For A Sandwich?. I haven't reposted anything from Jovina in a while but couldn't resist this post on sandwiches, or as we like to say in Rhode Island - sangwiches.  Jovina has a wonderful knack for making the ordinary extraordinary.  The oven fried green tomatoes look like my new favorite.  As usual, Brava Jovina! …

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Taking Pre-Orders for A Girl From the Hill, Starting … NOW!

Happy Monday! And felice lunedi for all of my Italian and Italian American friends - I am pleased and just a little bit proud to say that A Girl From the Hill is ready for Pre-Order!! Yes I know I sound like a cheesy ad for laundry detergent.  But the writing/self publishing process has left me with little pride, …

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A Girl From the Hill – Coming to a Book Store and Web Site Near You– Soon!

I am very excited to have just put the finishing touches on A Girl From the Hill: My Mother's Journey from Italian Girl to American Woman. I will be sending my final galley signoff tomorrow morning and the book will officially be going "to print." Even though I'm a bit sick of looking at it, …

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Trying to Process What Happened in Boston with Pickle and Mr. Rogers

Trying to Process What Happened in Boston. Some beautiful thoughts from someone close to the source.  Well done, Joy... One of the most beautiful thoughts in this post comes from someone I always loved, but is no longer with us.  Now I know why I loved him so as a little girl - and as a not …

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I Have Angel Potential – and so do You

  After remaining glued to the TV and radio this past week, watching and listening to the tragedy and then the victory that was Boston  this week, I can’t being envious of all of the bravery, resolve and selflessness I have witnessed.  Because I am frightened.I felt fear just driving down Post Road in Warwick, …

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I Coulda Beena Contenda- but She Actually is One

 My daughter stayed home sick yesterday with a cough and scratchy throat. She is pretty tough as sixth grade girls go, so when she does complain that she’s not well I take it seriously. My husband, upon getting home from work, suggested that Julia get ready for basketball practice that evening. I began to protest, …

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