Cue “Pomp and Circumstance,” because it’s graduation season. I’ve been riding the party train all month (eight days). I’ve been up in Ohio for Kent State's commencement, where my niece Chloe grabbed her diploma. I went to a high school graduation party for my cousin’s kid, Natalia, ...
Her soft-spoken and gentle nature belie her determination and grit. It is how Suzanne Montecalvo Antonucci played and excelled as an athlete and it remains an expectation in the classroom and on sports fields, courts and tracks for her three children. “It was an honor to be Suzanne’s ...
One of my favorite outdoor pastimes is taking in a ballgame. Having coached for so many years, I guess it lends to reason. My buddy Vinnie and I traveled up to Berlin Brothersvalley to watch some local high school softball action the other evening. As I think about it, this would have made the ...
There we sat, my daughter and I, playing a card game. As she considered her next move, I studied her for a long moment: dark curly hair piled atop her head in a messy bun, big glasses framing her brown-green eyes, full eyebrows. “You have the rosiest cheeks,” I said. She reached to touch ...
Q. What’s the best life advice you have? Mary Jo’s Response: Wow! What a great question! Let me first say that each of us is unique. What guides my life may not inspire you, although I hope at least some of my message touches your heart. I will start with two stories. I share them because ...
Next week will mark our fourth wedding anniversary, and time sure does fly when you're having fun! We got married late in life (in our 50s) and both for the first time, so our lifelong friends who got married in their 20s and 30s and are by now (and their own admission) "old married couples" ...
