http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/No,I do not have the audacity to think that everything I say is right because I am saying it. But sometimes I do need to get a thing or two off my chest...hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/581802I've been really really busy, but that doesn't mean I don't think about you all. May you and your loved ones have a wonderful holiday and be truly thankful for all the blessings in your life. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoohttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/573590On this Friday morning I couldn't help but chuckle and think back to an interpreting assignment I had three weeks ago today. I had to go out of town to be an interpreter at a civil wedding. How lovely and romantic, I thought - two foreigners getting married in a quaint little Sicilian town! But I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/569365Steeped in family health problems and and other shenanigans made me way too busy to pop in...but I missed ya all. Hope you're all well. I got a lot of catching up to do! Big hugs to all xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxohttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/540202That is what they told my mother last Tuesday, when they rushed my dad from one hospital to a better-equipped one. Thank God, he's lived well past the sole hour doctors had allotted. My dad has been having ventricular fibrillation attacks for the last 20 years or so. First, they were only...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/536187My two - week stint as a teacher via webcam ended this week. It was enjoyable and found the challenge worthwhile, though it was not without it's cons - it does not give you the freedom to use a whiteboard or a OHP as I would a normal classroom, but all the same it went well. The girls took a real...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/534254I was checking my email on AOL earlier when one of their slideshows caught my eye. It said "11 Ways To Look Younger". Wow, that could sure come in handy! So I proceed to flip through the pictures and list of how-to, and I read the things I'm already aware of: no yo-yo dieting, avoid sugar...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/532173I'll admit it...I love eating good food. Does it show sometimes? Of course. But I can't help it. It's what happens when you descend form a lineage of great cooks. My weight has always fluctuated since my teens and there are times where I've overdone it, but now I combine healthy eating with an...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/531522I'm spending the Easter weekend at my parents' house, which is in a small town along the southern coast of Sicily. Yesterday, as part of the Easter celebrations, the nearly 600-year-old tradition of the re-enactment of Christ's Passion and Death, took place, as it does all over Sicily. It can be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/530477Easter is just around the corner, and with that so are the banquets.Though I'm not a vegetarian, in the last few years I've given up eating lamb or goat at Easter, and in general. I just can't bear that their sweet, friendly faces are slaughtered for someone's gluttony. I know it's a practice and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/530240Well, having been tarred and feathered earlier by two bloggers who shall remain nameless, I've come to ask myself, does it really bother me when people accuse me of something I'm not? Are you strong enough to back your opinions, or do you hide your head in the sand and not speak up for yourself?...