It’s All Maya!

(School Days - Mom, middle row, far left.)
My mom is an extraordinary woman who had a difficult life as a young child and some of her earliest memories are those that sound like a Stephen King novel turned into a horror movie.  Painful memories that anyone would want to forget, so I won’t go into […]

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This is what we left behind….

This is what greeted us!
We left El Paso with warm weather and sunny skies and landed in Pittsburgh where a blizzard was brewing!  As a matter of fact, all flights into Pittsburgh were cancelled; only ours and two others, were the only flights that landed on an icy runway.  When […]

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Maya Muses:  Just a little update!  We’re still in the Southwest, 70° weather, sunny blue skies.  The type of weather where you just go out with a light jacket on.  My brother Bob just e-mailed us photos of the latest snowfall in Pittsburgh!  Over 30 inches and you can’t even see our cars buried underneath […]

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Probably a lot of young people have never even heard of the song, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, but for any Baby Boomer, this was a big Glen Campbell hit back in the 60s!  Well, we got to Phoenix (ten of us!) and after the snow in New York and Pittsburgh, a balmy, […]

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The one thing that I will miss here are the long walks on our private beach, where our dolphins appeared to us everytime I let out a high tone whistle.  Patrick use to look at me like I was crazy when I would pucker up and whistle as high a note as I could muster, but […]

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I’m usually the one who plays an April Fool’s Day joke on family and friends - nothing outrageous, just a little prank or two.  Well, this time my mother decided to turn the table on me.  We had talked on the phone earlier in the day and April Fool’s didn’t even come up, so when […]

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Okay this will be my last post about the Pittsburgh Steelers until next season maybe, but like most Steelers fans, after winning the Super Bowl, I just loved reliving the entire game the day after! I was looking on the internet and watching ESPN (Yeah, like how often do I watch ESPN?!) and I happened […]

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All the people who have been snowed in under wintery and icy conditions for the past few months will not be happy to hear that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow at sunrise this morning and, therefore, there will be six more weeks of winter!
For those of you who don’t know who Punxsutawney Phil is, I […]

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Update:  The new Super Bowl rings have finally arrived!  Scroll down for a closer look!  Warning:  you may need to put on sunglasses with all the bling; afterall, there’s 63 diamonds and other precious gems!!!  (Okay!  I’ll stop drooling!)
Talk about an exciting game…..this was it!!!  The Steelers took a comfortable lead (17-7) in the first […]

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There’s a phenomenon in the US that no other football team in the NFL can boast about except for the Pittsburgh Steelers!  The US can truly be called Steeler Nation!  I have been to every state in the continental US except for two and in every single state you will find not only die hard […]

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