January 7, 2024 We’ve been back home in Sarasota for ten days, and I’m just now getting around to culling our Christmas photos. Christmas is the one holiday that I love. Love. Like really love. Over the past few years, we’ve pared down our decorations…but not the fun. We no longer hang outdoor lights, but...
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December 23,2023 Middle Island, NY We left Sarasota on December 14. Before we left, I spent some time on Siesta beach. 🩵 I love it when I spy my blue heron friend. This is Point of Rocks…the actual rocks are beyond the point. Looking north from Point of Rocks. We met up on my way...
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July 18,2022 We are waiting for our house-sitters to arrive before we depart for an overnight at the Aloft hotel at Laguardia airport. Although we don’t fly until 1:40 pm tomorrow, I always feel best when we spend the night before at the airport. It’s been a while since I’ve posted here so I thought...
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Christmas season and I’m joyful. I’m joyful because I choose to be. My happy Christmas state of mind is a conscious decision, achieved through the practice of mindfulness and non-attachment. For me non-attachment to outcomes, coupled with no expectations is a path to joy. My holidays were sometimes fraught with anxiety, high expectations, exhau...
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So we’ve only been gone from Long Island a week and I’m missing the Lovebugs. A lot. During the two weeks that we spent in NY after our cruise, we tried to cram in as much Lovebug time as possible. This included attending several sporting events. We watched eight year old Isabel preside over the...
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Summer 2021…second summer of the pandemic. We left our home in Sarasota on May 15…returning to Long Island, just in time to catch our lovebug Charlotte’s Lacrosse team make a run for the County Championship. What an absolute joy to watch these young athletes compete at such a high level. Here’s Charlotte after a game...
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We returned to Long Island on June 1, taking just two days to travel the 1248 miles from our condo in Sarasota to our home on Long Island. It was a very long two days… felt like twenty days, the cats were miserable and I felt like we were surrounded by Covid danger at every...
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Writing from the perspective of one month removed from the Christmas festivities offers me a chance to review my photos and revisit the fun. One of the absolute joys of being a grandparent is attending holiday school functions. December 9th found us enjoying Claire’s first holiday concert. She participated in the band portion, playing flute...
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We woke to a winter wonderland. The best kind of winter wonderland- complete stillness, just two inches of snow on the ground and with no appreciable wind, snow clinging to the trees. I spent a few hours on our finances, Timmy bought logs for the fireplace…a perfectly ordinary morning. In the afternoon we fetched the...
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