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Saints at 50:  The Morning After

Saints at 50: The Morning After

And in the blink of an eye fifty years in the making, it’s over. Family together again.  Wonderful! I’ll be writing more about the whole thing over the next few days.  In the meantime, here’s a selfie from the reunion with my REAL Saints Sib, […]

White Sneakers, Stockings, and Black Socks:  Styling It

White Sneakers, Stockings, and Black Socks: Styling It

As part of our prep for this weekend’s 50th Anniversary celebration, Rene Meyer DeLucia shared with me her collection of Leo Derlak images from back in the day.  I’d seen some of the images before, and nearly all brought a smile to my face. Some […]

Happy 50th!

Happy 50th!

A blink of an eye and a lifetime ago … Karen and I were there at that first rehearsal in the OLP Cafeteria fifty years ago this month.  Once we had our first assignments squared away, the twirlers were on the stage, horns in the […]

Random Ponderings:  The Annex Payphone and related stuff

Random Ponderings: The Annex Payphone and related stuff

Featured Image:  Picture of the Annex payphone taken in 2007. “Who has money for the phone?” Standing on line at the payphone in the Annex after getting back from a parade or show was how it worked for us back then.  Eventually, some of us […]

Looking Back and Paying It Forward

Looking Back and Paying It Forward

Featured Image:  2008 Reunion, (clockwise from top left) Ray Chmieleski, Alvina Chesnovitz, Tony Fastuca, Lorraine Fastuca, Lillian Stratton, Tom Swan, Joan Chmieleski, Noreen Meyer. This weekend, I have a birthday coming up which officially marks me as old enough to file for Social Security retirement […]