https://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+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/587584Here's to a New Year of love, happiness, serenity, peace, and better things for our Blogit family and the world all over. xoxoxoxoxoxohttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/586819It seems like that for the last few years or so we're reminded right around Christmastime of all that is good in the world, and all that is horrid. Horrid doesn't even begin to describe the story of poor JonBenet Ramsey. As almost all of you know, JonBenet Ramsey, a child turned monstrously into...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/586438https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/NewYorker_in_Sicily9496/584592Ah little kiddies...gotta love 'em. I love being around them and they never cease to amaze me with their curt bluntness and honesty. Never ones to hide their feelings. But how much honesty is too much? This afternoon I indulged in my guilty pleasure of eating at McDonald's, though trying to not...https://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. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoohttps://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...https://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 xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxohttps://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...https://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...https://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...