Valentine's

Valentine's Day 2011 I am so grateful to be here in my store.  It is Monday and I usually am closed but it is Valentine's Day and I am here!…

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Mom's 7 Years

Wow, where do I begin?  Well, it has been 7 years since Mom decided to shift worlds and I am very emotional every September. The feelings that I go through…

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The Cat Miracle

Meg’s Miracle Story Thanksgiving week I closed the store to go to Norfolk, Virginia and take our boat down the inter-coastal as far south as we could get. A Nor'eastern hit…

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Miracle Part I

Last summer I personally experienced a huge miracle!  I feel so blessed and am extremely grateful to be alive and perfectly healthy today following a terrible accident in August 2009. …

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Lady Bug

April 3, 2010 LADY BUG ON THE BEACH Ed and I spent all day chipping the trees and branches that we cut down from my mother’s beach house.  We stopped to…

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Dad's Birthday

Rudolpho Anthony DiPietro (Mommy’s Little Rudolph Valentino) March 11, 1928 Dad ~ Some of my feelings are so disconnected Some parts are total love Some parts are just so painful And others are just so. The hardest challenge…

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Broken Heart

September 9, 2009 Tears come and tears go, just like the Ebb and flow nothing gained and nothing lost. Thoughts and feelings never to be lost.  Allow yourself to feel the…

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Healing Heart

September 9, 2009 Healing Heart Tears come and tears go, just like the Ebb and flow nothing gained and nothing lost. Thoughts and feelings never to be lost.  Allow yourself to…

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Good Luck Day

June 13th, 2008 FRIDAY, THE 13TH The Good Luck day! I arrived at the Hartford house to meet the carpenters. As I got out of the car a huge BRIGHT, BRIGHT orange Baltimore oriole…

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