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Where were you that day? Remembering President Kennedy and other Fragments..

Friday Fragments is a recap of what I have been up to all week, the edited short version…

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Today is one of those days that as Americans we can never forget and most of us that were alive when President Kennedy was shot will always remember exactly where we were that day.

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I was only five-years-old. My grandmother was the one who picked my uncle (he was five too) and I up from kindergarten every afternoon. On that day, she was not there in the schoolyard to get us so one of her neighbors took us to her house. The neighbor also had a five-year-old son named Dennis who would eventually be my first love but not that day. The boys ran off to play boy games and Mrs. Soda turned the television on in the living room for me and she went into the kitchen to feed her baby. I knew who the president and the first lady were I knew they had a daughter who was the same age I was and that they had a baby boy. I knew the family was important to almost everybody. The TV announcer said the president was shot and then the TV went blank. Dennis’s mom came out of the kitchen, wiping her hands on her apron and asked me what the man on TV said. I told her the president was shot. I knew this was very bad news and I thought of Caroline. The phone rang. Mrs. Soda came back into the living room and told me my grandmother was home. I ran across the street to her house. I told her what happened and she turned on the radio and the TV. My grandmother started to cry and she tried to make me go outside and play but I wouldn’t go. I just sat on the sofa quiet until my father came to pick me up.

This picture was taken in 1962. I am on the left…

Onto lighter Fragments…

I met the very handsome and very talented Kyle Lowder at the Press Club luncheon last Wednesday. I cannot wait to see his performance as Joseph in the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat next month. Kyle offered to take us back stage after the show to meet the rest of the cast.

Also at the luncheon was Sharon Pinkenson. She started and is the executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. Her job is to convince the movie business that the Philadelphia area is the place to make movies. It is a lot more complicated and important than that but that needs its own post. She shared some great stories with us and really got me thinking about how some tax breaks might be beneficial to our economy.

It is scaring me that I am already working on my New Years goals and scaring me even more that I have a lot of work to do.

Since meeting and hearing Goldie Hawn speak about mindfulness and education, I have been meditating, again every day. I forgot how much it helps. You can read more about Goldie’s talk here:

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Grandkids Adriana (4) and Dominic (11) came to spend the weekend last week. Dominic quickly abandoned us for stepson Michael‘s house. The two of them get along well and both like MMA and video games. Adriana had us laughing the entire weekend. She loves wearing my glasses, my jewelry and my clothes. She is as bad at doing her hair as I am…