I now have sacred ground in my possession; infield dirt from Shea Stadium. During the summer my aunt had the opportunity to play a game at Shea as part of a fantasy camp, and was able to “covertly obtain” a few zip-lock bags of dirt from around first base. She recently sent me one of [...]
The difference between Christmas for a 10 year old and Christmas for a 1 year old was apparent this Thursday morning… Maegan was excited to get her first cell phone. While Darah was excited to get her first toothbrush. Maegan hit the jackpot again when her aunts and uncles chipped in together to get her [...]
Patty got this photo in an email she received from her father. Ed is currently working as a civilian contractor with the Army (not in the Army) in Afghanistan. It seems unbelievable to me but this photo is of Ed doing his job in a special military vehicle used to sweep for land mines. You [...]
This has probably been the busiest December I’ve ever had. I’m not quite done with a stretch where I’ll have worked late for 9 of 11 consecutive days. Starting with last Monday December 8th, I worked late due to Monday Night Football. Then I worked late on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday because we’re recording a [...]
A blog about Long Island History just wrote a blurb about my 1946 Huntington Town Planning Map. Cool! I may not blog every day but I’ve been blogging a long time. Statistically speaking, 99.99% of all blogs on the internet were started after my first blog (this one) first launched in January of 2001. I’ve [...]
Maegan seems to win everything she enters. In 2006 she won an electric guitar for being the top fundraiser in the entire 3rd grade. In October she was one of only two students (out of the 94 elementary schools in CMS) to earn a spot on the North Carolina Elementary Honors Chorus. And now Maegan’s [...]
Wednesday there were horrible terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. During the day I was busy with work and when I got home I was busy preparing for Thanksgiving, so I didn’t even learn of the attacks until mid-Thursday. Immediately upon finding out I went to the internet to learn more about what happened. I went [...]
Every year my mother and sister travel to Charlotte for Thanksgiving. That’s one tradition. Another tradition we have is to always see an animated film the day after Thanksgiving. (I don’t even know the last non-animated film I saw in a theater.) This year we saw Bolt. Good movie, two thumbs up. But we didn’t [...]
This morning Darah had her second surgery this year, which is a lot for an 18 month old. In the spring she had a myringotomy, more commonly known as “putting tubes in the ears”. This was done because Darah was constantly getting middle ear infections. That surgery completely solved her ear problems but we kept [...]
On this Veterans Day I thought this would be an appropriate time to tell the story about my great uncle Jules Levine. My uncle Julie (great uncle Jules) was an Army private serving in Italy during World War II. On June 2nd, 1944 his platoon needed to seize control of a hilltop near a highway [...]