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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

40 Diamonds for 40: Awesome Aunties, Aunt Jerry

After 40 years, it's still amazing to me what little nuggets of family lore are coming to light thanks to my bright diamonds. For example, I never knew that I shared a birthday with my Aunt Jerry's sister-in-law. According to my mother, Jerry met Jack thanks to his sister Deb, who was Jerry's friend. Lots of other fun people share our birthday, including: actress Kim Novak, actor George Segal, and Peter Tork of the Monkees (who also went to school right up the road from where I grew up in CT!)

Aunt Jerry and Uncle Jack still live in the house across the street from where Grandma Roa used to live. My memories of trips to Ogden always involve seeing them, or seeing my cousin Cindy, and/or Cindy's kids Jackie and DJ. In addition to her duties as a daughter, mother, wife, grandma, and now a great-grandma, I remember Jerry's artistry as a beautician, a crafter, a decorator, and her many endeavors as an entrepreneur. Some things don't fall far off the family tree.

l-r: Grumpa Max and his little sister, my Aunt Jerry with their mother, my Grandma Roa date unknown; Aunt Jerry and Uncle Jack in the driveway of their Utah house, c. August 2010



HI! Kid, HAPPY 40th DAY YOU WERE BORN! Have a great day, and wonderful year.

I know you wanted pics and memories of your youth. I have no pics to contribute, but I am sure you'll have plenty, before the year is gone.

My memory is from the day you were born. We were at Uncle Jack's parents' home, celebrating his sister Deb's birthday, when we got the call you had arrived. We were really excited to think we would be celebrating not only Deb's B-Day, but yours also. Oh how time slips away from us.

LUV YA, Aunt Jer

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