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We have settled on a time and place.  We're moving south from Peekskill to Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown - so we are hoping that a few more people might want to join us for an afternoon of, well, whatever OSer's do when they get together.  It will be fun though!  Y… Read full post »

Friday the 13^th 

How appropriate 

It just dawned on me that today would have been my 33^rd Wedding Anniversary.  No, please, do not feel sorry for me.   I found that when I would tell people “I’m Divorced” the immediate response was… Read full post »

photo (c) Liz Corbett

Too many Open Calls to keep up with. 

My 3 Words:

Youth - Life - Truth

My Triolet:

I long for the innocence of youth

standing on the precipice of life

Believing it was I  who held the truth

I long for the innoce… Read full post »

 

Today has been a year since my first post on Open Salon.  It was a post about my manic depressive father titled “ I Thought I Had A Normal Childhood”.  I thought that is what I came here to write about.  So/… Read full post »

He carries her purse on his arm
as if it belonged there.

Just another parcel to be handled

with care; yet not a care

to the stranger's gaze.

He carries her purse on his arm

without awkwardness;

His comfort shows
he must have been caretaker,

for some… Read full post »

Sun

Stinging heat

Scorching, searing, roasting

my arms and legs

burned

Bluish Moods Cinquain

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Childhood should be carefree.

The hardest decisions should be -
which tree to hide behind
So they won't find me!

Colors of chalk on the sidewalk. 
What to draw today?
Which frilly dress
from the old wooden trunk will I pick?
Which bobble of beads
from mom’s jewelry bi/… Read full post »

Genealogy, I must say has a lot to do with luck and finding the right people who already have the information. 

This all started because I saw my grandfather’s birth certificate hanging in my mother’s den. 

You have to start with “something”!!

Tha… Read full post »

On the left, is my grandfather, Michaelangelo Fastiggi, with his father Vincenzo.  This picture was taken in 1896.  My grandfather was six years old and had just immigrated to the United States. 

I can only imagine what that trans-Atlantic voyage was like.  I… Read full post »

Dreams of Heaven

I picture blue azure,

sparkling specks of shooting stars

across the water -

Mediterranean.

***   

Sun warming, enveloping.

The sting of its intensity on

my chest, arms, tips of my toes.

I’m in heaven.

See the sails of the tiny shi… Read full post »

I had the most interesting “Travelocity” experience this afternoon.  I am trying to book a flight.  A few flights, in fact.  Seattle to Newark, then either Newark to Naples, JFK to Rome, Newark to Rome, JKF to Naples, I know, I am confusing even myself.  So, I b… Read full post »

 
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(Mary T. Kelley told me this is a picture of her local Boulder Bookstore)

I’ll keep this list ongoing and resurrect it every so often to inform our new  members of the great talent here on OS.   PLEASE… Read full post »

(in no particular order) 

Cindy Ross –        Sonnet Smackdown Guilt

Cindy Ross -         Pieta

Ken Honeywell – A Sonnet For Cindy Ross

Ken Honeywell – Frank Indiana&… Read full post »

                   This year of blogging changed my life at last.
                   I’ve made good friends and… Read full post »

 Lady Liberty waiting for the Storm!

New York City Subway

Ok, so it's been a few years since I've been in a Catholic Church!
Push Button???

These pictures were taken in September 2009 on my first trip back to my "hometown" of New York City in 34 ye… Read full post »

I loved this Movie.  And I don’t like movies like this. 
It’s complicated.
I don’t care for comedy, stupid stuff, or movies with Steve Martin.
Meryl Streep was the draw.
Actually, Meryl Strep turning 60 was the draw.
Actually, Meryl Streep turning 60… Read full post »

I was born to a Catholic woman married to a Jewish man.  Wasn’t that enough from the start to blur the lines of religion?  Neither of my parents had a penchant for their respective faiths.  Although my father in his early (manic) days did decide
to convert from Judaism to Catholic… Read full post »

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                 Photograph by Medfor… Read full post »

As you know, you can only have one compulsive obsession at a time, in order to remain sane, that is, and carry on with a family, a job, a life!

Before Open Salon, my obsession was genealogy.

My favorite (genealogy) quote:

“We are the chosen.  In each family there… Read full post »

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We here at OS are like family.

Some of us (well, more correctly – some of you) have authored your own book or painted, photographed, crafted something beautiful.

After doing a book review of Nikki Stern’s ne… Read full post »

Alone
at the bar, in town;

down the road to the right.

            I was afraid

            At first

            But/… Read full post »

 I’m sure that I am not the first here to read our very own Nikki Stern’s book!  Well, I’ll at least be the first to write about it. 

I’ve started my own little collection of OS Writer’s published works.  Kind of feels like family and if your sister o… Read full post »