Choices, Dreams, Individuality, Inspiration, change, family, growth, life 
Get out there and start a new tradition on a day that typically has no lunch, kick off your slippers and sweatpants, grab your credit card, and go earn your dinner.
America, Black Friday, Sales, Thanksgiving, Turkey, family, football, tradition We arrived to find a dilapidated haunted looking house, shutters hanging by a thread, birds nesting on the sun porch, a rust colored fence entangled with Tarzan vines and strange animal sounds coming from the dense forest growing with in its boundaries.
Summer, Vacation, Victorian home, beach, elderly, family, new jersey, shore I did not get you a birthday present. It's not because I don't care. It's only because you are a dog. Nevertheless, I'd still like to celebrate you, like I always do, in a way that you will probably never be aware of. By telling others about your daily triumphs, I hope to do some justice to your two short years of life.
Weddings. (Ugh)
The boys are back in town, on short notice, so I'll do what any mom would do. I pick up the phone and call Vinny's Pizzarama – the family's long-time favorite pizza shop. "Two-mediums; one plain, one white with broccoli." Armed with my claim number and an ETA, 15 minutes later I saunter into the noisy, busy, happy place that makes awesome pizza, pies my boys would defend to the death.
culture, family, garlic knots, life, memories, pizza, restaurants, tradition My grandfather died with a martini waiting for him by his chair in the living room. He stood and walked to the kitchen to get some pretzels to accompany the chilled cocktail he planned on ending his day with and never made it back to his chair. When my uncle found him the next day on the floor between the kitchen and living room, he noticed no signs of a sudden fall. No bruises or evidence of struggle, eye glasses still in place, he appeared to have set himself down, accepting the pain in his chest that took his life. A doctor diagnosed the cause of death as cardiac arrhythmia, or abnormal electrical activity that alters the usual heartbeat. Knowing how his wife died just eighty-eight days earlier, I view it in simpler terms: my grandfather died of a broken heart.
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