I’m writing this only a few days removed from another great Thanksgiving celebration with my father and a few of my brothers and sisters. Like many years before, we had dinner at my sister Sheila and her husband Chris’s house in Southbury.   It’s now, during the holidays when I say thanks to the […]

OK, OK, so it’s not rocket-science that laughing makes people feel better about life and about themselves while also putting them in a better mood, but not every person is blessed with too many opportunities to laugh in their lives. I realize that I just stated a pretty basic fact.  Even so, and especially in […]

Today, 11/3, is my dear wife Annette’s birthday. The name I used in the this blogs’ title is a nickname that I called her quite often when we first started dating (I was/am Dandan). Overall, we have been together a little more than 20 years, but it was her outgoing personality that allowed us to […]