Cindy's Blog
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Joan Phyllis Winterkorn (1938 – 2024) Joan Phyllis Winterkorn, age 85, beloved mother, grandmother and friend died peacefully in her sleep on August 3, 2024 after a brief illness. Joan was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 18th 1938 to Joseph and Mary Doucette. Her school days were spent at Rosary Academy boarding school in…
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Every year in the first week of February the topic of the famous Blizzard of 1978 is again in the news. The sheer intensity of the storm caught meteorologists by surprise, leaving people, especially motorists, unprepared. Many people were stranded in cars. Route 128 was like a parking lot buried in snow (photo of route…
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I spent the first two weeks of May on a solo trip to Royal West Indies Resort (RWI) on Grace Bay beach in Providenciales (Provo), Turks and Caicos Islands. This was my 15th visit since 2002 and the first time going for more than a week. I feel like RWI is my home away from…
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So happy that some nice warm weather has finally arrived to New England. I love getting outside for walks and runs, but I’m definitely a warm weather jogger. I do not run outside in the winter. During the winter, it’s treadmill time or ‘dreadmill’ as it’s sometimes called. One thing that I’ve discovered is that…
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I’m an amateur genealogist. I love researching my family tree. I started my tree back in the mid-1990’s. My goal was to create a tree for the twins, so I started tracing my tree, together with Rich’s tree. Rich’s ancestors have turned out to be much more interesting than mine, although his mother Velda was…