The latest edition of Literacy Lava is out today! Click here to read my contribution.

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Today was the Ridgewood Memorial Day Run. The 5K was a three generation race with Rob, Rob’s dad and Caroline all running. Caroline improved her time last year by 6 minutes finishing in twenty nine minutes and forty seven seconds. She placed sixth in her 9 and under age group. Quite an exciting accomplishment. After a […]

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Today we drove for a total of five hours for a two hour lunch. We were on four highways and a few back roads. Normally, on Memorial Day weekend, this would be the stuff for complaints but not today. We drove to Old Saybrook, CT to celebrate a 70th wedding anniversary. And no, that is not […]

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Growing up, I had a piano teacher named Mr. Cooper. He was definitely the coolest dude I knew. We played show tunes and easy listening tunes and Christmas carols with the occasional piece of classical music thrown in for good measure. Fast foward to the present and we’ve had a piano sitting in our house […]

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So maintaining two blogs does not seem to be working. Instead of writing twice as much, I am not writing at all. Rob and I were away last week, and this picture was hanging in our room… And I thought to myself that in order to make boring art, one must first make art. When […]

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