It’s All Maya!

This is the first Christmas Patrick and I will spend in our apartment since returning to Paris.  In 2009 we packed up all our things and shipped them back to France, so that year we spent Christmas at my mom’s house in Pittsburgh.  Wonderful memories with Katarina, mom, and the rest of the family playing […]

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(Part One)

Aunt Dolores resting after a long trip.
Time passes so quickly and it’s already a week that my mom, sister and aunt were getting ready to return home after a whirlwind trip to France and Switzerland.  It was great having them here, but before you knew it, they were heading home and the apartment seemed […]

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Well it’s playoff time once again and if anyone knows me, they know I don’t follow the regular football season.  I wait for the Steelers to go into the playoffs before I get interested in the NFL.  Yes, I know, I’m a fair weather fan and I’m the first to admit it!
Yesterday’s match between the […]

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Chilean miner after being rescued.
I was watching the Chilean miners being rescued live on the internet this morning!  Incredible images that are amazing and emotional to watch showing the miners 2300 ft. below and the work that was done to rescue the 33 men trapped since the beginning of August!  I think everyone in Camp […]

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(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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