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  • Sports, and life, can hinge on one moment

    Sports, and life, can hinge on one moment

    Sometimes in sports (and life) everything can hinge on just one moment. For the Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals it was the late hit on Nathan Horton in game three  that knocked him out of the series and propelled the Bruins to win 4 out of the next five games as they rallied to…

  • Thoughts on Father’s Day

    Thoughts on Father’s Day

    Perhaps it’s true that you never truly understand your father until you become a parent yourself. Perhaps. My relationship with my own, was a little complicated. My first memory of my Dad was: “Just who does this guy think he is?” You see in the early days, my father was out to sea quite a…

  • An Amazing Story of Sacrifice

    An Amazing Story of Sacrifice

    When you walk around Arlington Cemetery you can’t help but be stuck by the sheer number of gravesites and each one a story of heroism and sacrifice. Purple hearts, bronze starts, silver stars and on. A couple of weeks ago I caught a story of a local veteran, Ed Krysa,  who had a ceremony at…

  • Morel Family Genealogy

    Here some info on the Morel family genealogy. Morel & Gibbons Family Tree June 2011 These videos locate the gravesites for at Saint Michael’s Cemetery on Cox Street in Hudson, Massachusetts: Albert and Agnes Morel, my grandparents. Flavien and Digna Morel, my great-grandparents Henry Morel, my great-grandfather’s brother (?) Albert and Agnes Morel, my grandparents:…

  • Return to Cape Cod: 20+ Years Later

    Return to Cape Cod: 20+ Years Later

    On May 1, 2011, we took a trip to Cape Cod to revisit a couple of spots that we had stayed previously. Billisgate Ave In Eastham, MA Is where we spent our honeymoon back in 1986, near First Encounter Beach. OK, it’s true that I left the honeymoon a little early to go back and…

  • Memories of Mom on Mother’s Day 2011

    Memories of Mom on Mother’s Day 2011

    I love this photo of my parents. This is them as chaperons at my junior prom in the PI. One of these days, I’ll stumble on my photo with my girlfriend, Dale, at this event. But for now, it’s MIA. Today, the boys and I had brunch for Kathleen and inevitably, stories came up of…