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When The Best Leftovers Are The Moments

When I was growing up holidays were an endless stream of relatives, food, music and laughter. There was rarely an elegant table setting and quiet conversation. That’s not how the Greeks in my life did things. There were always more people than room at the table and pastisto and spanakopita as side dishes to […]

Why You Shouldn’t Hog Your Journey

I have a thing for podcasts. Podcasts keep me awake and engaged when I’m in the gym or driving the New Jersey Turnpike to see my Mom. There are so many good ones out there now that inform, inspire or simply stimulate my thought process that it’s sometimes hard to choose. On my last trip […]

The 365 Day Writing About Nothing And Everything Project

I wrote my first blog ten years ago today. It was a precarious time in my life. I had just lost my job. I barely knew what a blog was much less what I was going to write about. All I knew was that I was going to write. And I did. I hit publish. […]

Why I Vote Every Chance I Get And You Should Too

My birthday falls just two weeks after Election Day so the very first election I wanted to vote in I couldn’t because I wasn’t 18 yet. That was 1972 and my candidate, George McGovern lost to Richard Nixon, someone who resigned in disgrace less than two years later in August 1974. I supposed you could […]

When You Need A Leader And There Is None To Be Found

Every time my mother says to me that she has never seen things as bad as they are now it tugs on my heart. My mother is 96. She was born into the Great Depression, lived through WWll, lost her mother when she was seventeen and one of her brothers when he was nineteen. She […]