Category: Family
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Donate to Fight Pancreatic Cancer – Research Walk, June 8 in Brooklyn!
This is a photo of my mom and my aunt, just a few months before she passed away after battling pancreatic cancer in 2008. This coming Sunday, June 8th, my team is walking in the Lustgarten Foundation’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in Brooklyn in an effort to raise the necessary research funding for this terrible…
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The Doll Returns: Patti Playpal in Williamsburg
It was an adventure. After both the J and the M trains denied us passage over the Williamsburg Bridge, we trekked our way through the slick sidewalks of Brooklyn to the L in an attempt to make it into midtown Manhattan in time to attend Carol Channing’s 93rd birthday celebration at Town Hall (hosted by…
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“The Thing” Off Interstate 10 in Arizona
I ran across this Buzzfeed article today which lists off the “11 Of The Oddest Tourist Attractions In America.” I’m all for quirky/odd/irreverent adventures (it’s one of the reasons I love the books by the Weird USA guys) so as soon as I saw the headline I clicked in. Of the eleven I have been to…
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Mind voting for me for Christmas… today?
Hello readers and friends. Optimum is running a Caption Contest for the upcoming Christmas movie “Christmas with Tucker”. If you click here, you can vote for my caption on Facebook (as seen below). Just “like” the page and then click the blue [VOTE] button. The contest ends tonight so every vote counts! Thanks for your…
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The Doll: Things That Should Not Be Found
I recently submitted this story, which happened to me back in the late 1990s, to the Anything Ghost Show. You can listen to it on the podcast here. It’s a great show and, if true tales of the supernatural are your thing, I encourage you to subscribe to it. Below is the text to the…
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Today is World Cancer Day; What’s Your Story?
Today is World Cancer Day. The Lustgartsen Foundation, whose mission is to advance the scientific and medical research related to the diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of pancreatic cancer, asks that you share your story as to why you fight, today on Facebook. If we are close friends you may know that my family and…
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Urge Your Senators to Pass the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act
U.S. House Passes H.R. 733!! November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month but on September 19, the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act (formerly known as the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. But we still need the U.S. Senate to pass this bill before the end of the year…
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Paranormal State’s Ryan Buell Undergoing Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
Following a post from Towleroad, I read this People article on Ryan Buell, the founder and lead team member of A&E’s Paranormal State, who is currently undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you’ll know how much this particular disease terrifies me and how much it has impacted my…
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Happy 101st Birthday Lucille Ball!
Today would have been Lucille Ball‘s 101st birthday. My mom and I used to relish watching reruns of Lucy together and would reenact our favorite moments with each other. From “Vitameatavegamin” to her and Ethel’s job at the chocolate factory to “Slowly I Turned,” we would take turns playing Lucy in her various escapades. One…
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