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Theresa stopped the entire Zumba class. Someone’s husband was talking to her so loudly she couldn’t function. But he was nowhere to be seen. She had to deliver his message to his wife. She did. Then class resumed like normal. I was channel surfing last night when I came across TLC’s “Long Island Medium” starring Theresa Caputo. She’s a mom, married with children, and...

Reader’s note: Today would have been my Mom’s 98nd birthday. It seemed appropriate to publish this. As I said at the start of the entry about my Dad, I wrote the following less for others, though they may enjoy it, as I did for my own sake and for my son. Family is important.Mom was born some 50 miles from Budapest, Hungary in 1912 and was baptized Yolan. She was the first born of my...

Not everyone grieves in the same way. After all, we are different people with different physical appearances, different perspectives, different experiences, different thoughts, different emotions, different backgrounds, and different attitudes. So why when it comes to grief do we believe that there is one correct way to handle the loss of a loved one? There are in fact a number of constructive...

Although my memory doesn't serve me as well as it did 10 or 20 years ago, there are still things that I recall from my childhood. That was back when I was a pre-teen. I can clearly recall living in a small Italian community in a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania. During that period in my life, I can't ever recall not being surrounded by immediate family, extended family, and family and...