One day, when I was a young mother of two small children, I went to visit my sister who lived nearby. On the way, I stopped to pick up doughnuts for all of us. While exiting the doughnut shop I stared, frozen with disbelief while watching my car, with my children...

My Wedding Day

Dad taught me that I'd be better off as my own boss than I would be working for one. It's a blue collar thing and without a college degree I've done well enough to afford traveling to a distant land....Russia. Not because I was particularly enamored by the country. I was...

September, 1967. The Viet Nam War is in full swing. I was 18 with the maturity of a 12 year old, more interested in the Beatles and psychedelics than watching the news. A disappointment to my parents, I spent the summer bumming on Cape Cod with my friend, Nicky Russo until...

Kara went to the mall and walked by a pet store with kittens in the window. Cody made a fuss over her and she came home to get me, and we went over and brought her home. Cody was the most lovable cat ever! Both of these pictures are with Katara.

                                                               Pere Lachaise, Paris France On the fateful morning of September 11, 2001, a day that would later be marked by...