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CIGAR BOX AND MONEY, AND GROWING UP! »

A very good friend of mine since childhood posted something this morning on money which triggered my own experience, which I would like to share. To this day, Sheila is one of my oldest and dearest friends. The way that this situation was handled between my mother and  I  stayed with me most of my life.  It ultimately was a fine lesson in

“lines from a writings-Blue Skies..Bobby »

How many things do you still want to accomplish in your lifetime?  Do you make goal lists? Dream lists? Things to do lists?  If you do, then you're very much like me. I look across the table at my stack of old journals.  A rainbow of faint colors looks back at me.  Within these faded covers, pages and pages of thoughts and feelings rest

“I need to tell you one more time” »

Poem by Diane Isaacs, daughter of Leah Fonstein    You gave me life, nurtured me as a child, soothed away the pain, sorrow and tears as best you knew how.    Thank you for my lifetime treasure, such as the gift of becoming a pianist,going to a private place where I can go in peace, and sit and play in a dimly lit room, being moved by the

Notes from a guest at Chelsea’s wedding »

This information was received from  a freind's cousin, Dorothy B....  Notes from a guest at Chelsea & Marc Wedding.  Few of us can only imagine, but someone was a friend, a guest, which is written by them.... Very view of us in this world will ever get an insight into one of the great social events of 2010 summer events.  This wedding

Lessons from Gates. From Making a »

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!  Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about ll things they did not and will not learn in school.  He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the