Greetings. We are under the threat of a larger snow storm, and it began snowing right when Lew took me out for a really nice dinner. Yummy, and we are both so full of salmon and shrimp, and all the extras at Bonefish. Our day was filled with pre-op stuff, and I will tell you …
Author Archives: Judith Lavezzi
Booblog #4 January 13,2023
Booblog #4 January 13, 2023 Hello friends. I am writing, although Friday the 13th is an inauspicious time perhaps. But – today is what I have. It’s been an interesting week of pushing the system. The unknowing was bothersome. I did meet with an oncologist – a medical oncologist, not a radiation oncologist. (Still not …
Booblog #3
Jan 06, 2023, 2 PM Things move fast-but do they go anywhere at all? Humming to oneself… ‘When an irresistible force such as youMeets an old immovable object like meYou can bet as sure as you live Something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give, something’s gotta give’… – sing it Frankie!! Hello Friends, family et al, …
Booblog #2
Paperwork. Thank you all for your concern and all the energy, positive thoughts, and love sent my way. I am so grateful for it. Today was my first surgeons’ meet and greet, and it was interesting to get it all started, even though the road through the thicket is clearly still not clear. The office …
Booblog #1
Hello to you friends and family members alike. Best wishes to you on this New YEAR 2023. As I believe you know, I was diagnosed with breast cancer early in December. This booblog is written in an effort to be in open communication, without secretiveness, to inform and to lower the dramatic burst of my …
To Have an Older Brother
from “Olivia”, new book in final edit If not for Olivia’s brother, named Anthony John on his baptismal records, she didn’t know how she would manage at all. She relied on Tony as her confidant, friend, and intermediary between her and her aging parents. Maria and John Raggio had lost two other babies before Tony …
May 17, 2022 Italy
One blog – seven days – oh where to begin my tale! Lew and I flew on a formerly preferred airline, Lufthansa, a week ago today, arriving, finally, at the Ligurian coast, in the hills south of Genoa, North of the better-known Cinque Terre. Our little air B&B worked out just fine, roses and Iris …
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones.
I know. Totally, I am. Not Cool. But, we finally took the time to go to the Archeology Museum, and it was quite amazing, especially if you like skull measurements, and comparisons, along with 5000-year-old bodies/skeletons and big slabs of rock. That is essentially what the stone era had to deal with, and you go …
Dense
I am just getting what it looks like to have 500,000 people in a country 3% the size of the Big Island of Hawaii (which only has about 187,000 people)? In their efforts to vitalize and stay afloat during covid, they’ve been building like crazy, and old/new buildings tend to be 7-10 stories tall, ( …
26 Hours in Malta
Someplace in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea there sits a small island, actually an archipelago of islands that qualify as one of the smallest countries in the world. (10th) Historically it has played an outsized role in history. This means that everybody and his brother has fought here for either control or ownership of …