Entertain, Fitness, Heart Life’s Like A Jump Rope March 4, 2018

Featured Video Play Icon     February is American Heart month and since 2010, Nardin Academy has celebrated it with the popular, high energy, fun and playful school jump roping competition. The seriousness of heart disease and signs and symptoms of cardiac disease are discussed and so are ways to stay heart -healthy through food and exercise choices. But...

Atlantic 10, Memories, Swimming Nothing Beats Being There February 19, 2018

Featured Video Play Icon It’s so easy to stay home. It’s so comfortable. Everything is at our finger tips. We can watch movies, sporting events, watch TV shows we missed, escape to Instagram, and connect with the world on our lap top. Yet, it’s a false sense of connection in a way. You don’t really get the real story....

Faith, Family Buffalo Catholic Education Dinner February 6, 2018

Immaculate Conception School in Wellsville, NY is having a school mass for our beloved daughter Natalie Lewis. The principal handed me the mass card at Gala 22:6 the Catholic Education Celebration for the Buffalo Diocese Feb. 1, 2018. The School mass will be held May 10, 2018 on the Feast of the Assumption. How beautiful....

Fitness, Winter Confessions of a Mall Walker January 17, 2018

Featured Video Play Icon I have been feeling very unmotivated lately even though it is the beginning of a new year. Malaise is turning into lazz-iness. It’s been so cold and snowy and my usual twice a day walks have not happened and it’s hard to get motivated to go to the gym when you have to warm up your...

Faith, Family A look back at 2017 December 30, 2017

As we get ready to ring in a New Year – 2018, it’s easy to say, where has the year gone? Did I even accomplish anything? I know I wanted to organize more, entertain more and clear the house out of things that don’t spark joy (wink) well, I fell short on most of those...

Faith, Family Bigger than the Story December 14, 2017

Featured Video Play Icon         This past weekend I was fortunate to lead tours to both Seneca Falls and Skaneatelas in the Finger Lakes.  One town featured “It’s A Wonderful Life” festival and one featured “Charles Dickens Christmas.” This post is to show appreciation for these festivals and the people who created them and continue the...

Faith, Family Quick Tour of Vermont & New Hampshire October 14, 2017

Featured Video Play Icon        There are several reasons that I really enjoy being a tour hostess. The obvious of course is to experience new places. You expand your horizons. Your perspective changes. Yet it goes further.   *Please enjoy the video of our trip to Vermont and New Hampshire     1 . You realize you...

Faith, Fall, Family, Traditions Hello Again Olean September 25, 2017

Featured Video Play Icon      It seems more and more that grandparents play essential roles in the lives of their grandchildren. Kids need the stability, calmness and a place to escape from the pressures of the busyness of this world. Even in the 1960’s and 1970’s when our family would drive to Olean to visit my mother’s parents...

Faith, Family, Travel Let’s Go To Pittsburgh September 5, 2017

Featured Video Play Icon       Come along and join us as we visit Pittsburgh for two days over Labor Day weekend 2017. The best pancakes I have ever had in my life, and I have had my share- believe me- is at Pamela’s Diner. You gotta try um. Do it while you can. We always have to...

Faith, Family, Travel The Cincinnati Experience August 14, 2017

Featured Video Play Icon         Somehow I was granted the privilege of being a chaperone for 10 Nardin High School young ladies along with Stephanie Malinowski and Rosalie Sperrazza.  In two mini vans we headed to Cincinnati, Ohio to give a week of service to others.              I cannot tell you the...