Last night I finished reading When the Mob Ran Vegas, a great book that I grabbed at the McCarran Airport on my last trip to Sin City. At times the book suffers from some pretty poor grammar and editing, but the stories are so fascinating that you can forgive the author’s quirky, personal style. Plus,… Read more »
Posts Tagged: family
Gagne On Guard!
Heartland USA (Magazine of the American Outdoor Lifestyle), has an article about the Coast Guard in its “Lifestyles” section. The tagline is, “In the state with the smallest stretch of coastline, the U.S. Coast Guard’s motto — Semper Paratus, “Always Ready” — routinely gets tested in big ways.” That’s my little brother cruising the (very… Read more »
Teacher of the Week
I’m proud to announce that my sister-in-law is the Seminole County teacher of the week.
A Wet Laptop
My mom just sent me the following text message: I just dumped a venti starbucks on my work computer! Help! Attempts to contact my mom via her cell phone have failed. Unfortunately even if I could get her on the phone, the only advice I could give her — after over a decade of working… Read more »
Indigo Manor: Assisted Living in Daytona Beach, Florida
The “assisted living facility” where my grandmother lived — Indigo Manor in Daytona Beach, Florida — just sent my mom and uncle an automated form letter. It was something along the lines of, “Please tell us how satisfied you are in the care we gave your loved one.” They’re really not very bright over there…. Read more »
Anna Albanese
Anna S. Albanese10/28/1920 – 05/04/2007 My grandmother passed away died this afternoon. I hate “passed away”. It’s so … passive. Nana was not a passive person. She was incredibly, astoundingly active. She’d been pretty limited for the last few years, but that’s not really how I’ll remember her. When I was in elementary school I… Read more »
My Family Is Cool
At some point recently I stumbled upon Geni.com, a family-tree site. This is the kind of thing I seriously dig. It makes me sad that I can only go back two or three nodes on my family tree. My oldest nana is 86 and — when I called her a few minutes ago — was… Read more »
Learning to Golf
So it took me 33+ years, but I have finally started golfing. I am a complete and total idiot for not listening to the dozens of friends that have been trying to convince me to play for the last ten years. It is amazing fun and paralyzingly addictive. I played for the first time in… Read more »
Late Christmas Presents
A package arrived at my apartment today. It was a box of (late) Christmas presents from my little sister. (She’s not known for promptness.) Each item is fabulous and is listed here in order of fabulousness: an egg-laying rubber chicken – one of the most amazing gifts I’ve ever received Danger Mouse Seasons 1 &… Read more »
Lesley University
Congratulations to my little sister, Michelle! She just got accepted to Lesley University! Right in the middle of Harvard Square! How cool is that?
Michelle Gagne
So my little sister Michelle now has her own blog. I can’t stand music playing as soon as I hit a site, although I do actually really like the Postal Service song she’s got on there. I’m finding it incredibly hard to believe that this is my little tiny baby sister …
Famous for French
I visited my mom in Gainesville, FL for the holidays. While I was there I looked through some of the boxes of “stuff” that I’d left when I moved to California. This took some time, because I left tons of “stuff”. Here’s an example of something I decided to put into the “don’t need to… Read more »