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50 Shades of Red, Black & Blue

by Karen Amster-Young

“Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.” — E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey 50 Shades of Blue I am reading the “book of the moment”, Shades of Grey by […]

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categoryPosted: 04/4/12 11:14 AM

Just Pick Up the Phone

by Pam Godwin

A sister is someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. – Author Unkown Last week I heard on the news that a woman was suing her sister and Duke University over a pair of college basketball tickets. “How could family members get to the point of suing one another for basketball tickets?,” […]

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categoryPosted: 07/24/11 11:00 PM

Finding My Religion

by Karen Amster-Young

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once. – Richard Lewis Last week my father-in-law died.  It was so sudden that I need to create a new word to describe it. One minute we were lighting the Chanukah candles on the East Coast and the next minute we […]

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categoryPosted: 12/9/10 11:56 AM

Soaring on Long Island

by Karen Amster-Young

This is our first guest post!  The following post was written by R. Sanders.  Our blog inspired her to go gliding for the first time as she faced the possible dissolution of her 25-year marriage.  This blog is all about trying new things, facing fears, shaking it up. I don’t think it gets any braver […]

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categoryPosted: 11/25/10 9:39 PM

Seven Days of Smiles

by Karen Amster-Young

This week I discovered that Dr. Seuss was actually wrong once.  He said, “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”  I know what he is trying to say.  I just think he’s wrong.  The fact is, we all say too much […]

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categoryPosted: 10/1/10 9:54 AM

Empire State of Mind

by Pam Godwin

My younger daughter has already stated that I’m preoccupied with this blog and have been ignoring her, my older daughter wants in on the action and hopes to get a guest writer’s spot one week, and my husband – well, he just had the day off. So I figured, why not include the whole family […]

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categoryPosted: 07/6/10 6:30 PM