Yearly Archives: 2023

…………………….Happy Father’s Day in Heaven………What Can I tell you about my Dad?……He loved music and had a collection of over 1000 albums….He was a big jokester, and loved to have a good time with family and friends…..He knew everyone and loved people. They used to call him “The Mayor”. He loved Italian food, and good Italian wine…….He was brought up by his dad drinking wine, and so were we……mixed with water!….He loved his home….it was his castle……He had a beautiful finished basement where he would sit for hours listening to his music. Sometimes I would sit with him and he would give me a Raspberry Brandy in a very small cordial glass…….My dad was not a very demonstrative man with his children…..Sometimes I thought it was me….until I had a conversation with my brother, and he told me he was that with him and my other brother John too…….The first time I ever saw my Dad get emotional with me was when I gave him and my mother first class round trip tickets to Hawaii as a gift….he cried…..I know my father was always proud of my accomplishments, and those of my brothers. My parents were always there to cheer me on when I received an award. I know he loved his family and his grandchildren, though he didn’t always show it…………What I do know was how much he loved my mother…..She was his one true love. I never ever heard that he had another girlfriend while he waited for my mother to say yes…..My brothers moved out of the house when they were in their early 20s and I moved into NYC when I was 19 and going to Parsons…..My parents were empty nesters for a long long time…..When my mom passed away at 95 years old my dad was very lonely though he never complained. Then about a week after she died he told me my mom was calling him. He died two weeks after her…..Now they are in Heaven for all eternity…..I hope young and beautiful!………………….Happy Father’s Day Dad!

…………………These are random pictures of my Dad, my Mom and the family through the years…….The black and white photo at the extreme right is of my grandfather, my grandmother, and their children. My Dad, the oldest, is standing at the extreme left in the back…..The rest of the children are his sisters.

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……………With so many young adults graduating from High School this month….I can’t help but reflect on my High School years and the best friends I made……….BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!!……Jac took this photo at my home of Mary Bobby and me….I met Mary and Bobby in 7th grade at Elmont Memorial Jr. Highschool. We were 12 going on 13…..Mary and Bobby had been together in a different elementary school than I went to, because of where we lived……However, when we did meet, we became INSTANT FRIENDS, and our friendship lasted a lifetime……Bobby and I did so many things together…..We shared many FIRSTS in our lives…..My first Broadway show when we were 13 was with Bobby, [How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying], and my first trip into NYC without my parents….just Bobby and me on busses and the subway for my first time…I have a very faded picture of us with Robert Moss at the stage door!….We shared out first cigarettes together at his Bar Mitzvah…[it was his idea!]…..My first trip to Europe was to visit Bobby in Sweden where he was studying…afterwards we took many trips together….Denmark, Alaska and Rio to name just a few….we shared our first apartments in NYC together, and summer houses….the trips, the parties and almost all of the special moments in my life were  shared with Bobby……We were brothers…..Mary and I first bonded over our mutual love of art. We were in many of the same art classes together…She was a terrific painter….Mary became my high school crush, and we dated throughout junior and senior high….You may recall a recent post of my senior prom with Mary, Bobby, his date Phyllis and me in the pictures…..In this photo we were going to one of our High School reunions. Mary had flown in from California where she moved to, and Bobby lived in NYC…..We met at my house, and then I drove us to the reunion……..We became even closer as friends as we got older….We knew more about life, and each other……When they both passed away within months of each other last year, it was very difficult for me to deal with. I didn’t have either one to commiserate with to express my grief……Jac was gone so I had no one who could understand the depth of my grief….Their passing left a huge whole in my heart……..as the saying goes……”Grief  never ends…..but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay….Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith…..It is the price of love.””…….I know I will never in my life have BFF like them again………………Only my pictures and memories………BFF