The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get …
Feeling Good about 2012
I hope everyone enjoyed Christmas, I sure did. I had a festive Christmas Eve full of fishes (4 of 7), family and fattening desserts. Squid salad, scallops wrapped in bacon, shrimp cocktail, my mother’s fried smelts and my sister Donna’s broccoli rabe. Decadent desserts that I simply gorged upon. And my family, who I am …
Riu Riu Chiu
Oh I love the Monkees. I was about 3 when this first aired. They are much older now, and Davy is gone. But I still love them, and they bring me to a place where at least for me, happiness and peace were abundant. Thank you Redtree Times. Enjoy! Related articles It's A "Christmas From …
Christmas Angels
Each year, Christmas Spirit enters into my soul and settles, like a cool mist on the hard winter ground. Always a little different, depending on the state of my life. Christmas gives me something every year, but I am only able to accept what I’m ready for in my heart. I’ve spent many Christmases feeling …
Uncle Joe – Guest Blogger Maree O’Brien
As a special treat today, I asked my sister Maree to guest blog. She wrote Uncle Joe about my mother's oldest brother, often referred to by his nickname - the Bull. He kept all of the Fiore children in line and was not the kind of guy you'd want to try to fool or disobey. …
joy to the world…please
Levels of joy and sadness are spiking up and down with such high intensity these past few days. The joy of the holidays has been pierced with the sadness of Newtown. The joy in celebrating life and heroic deeds – the best that humans have to offer, in sharp contrast to the worst we can …
Two of My Favorite Celtics
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/kevin-garnett-kevin-mchale-reunite-share-long-needed-130522147--nba.html This blog doesn't usually cover sports figures. That I am a long time Celtics fan, a Kevin McHale fan and a Kevin Garnett fan doesn't usually work its way up here. But these are two men that I truly admire for their talent, their spirit and their perspective. McHale pretty much discovered KG …
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