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This Gioia's Chronicles: Happiness is in the Heart of the Beholder
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Saturday, September 19, 2009. Happiness is in the Heart of the Beholder. You will never be happy.". That’s what my father-in-law told me recently. I was sharing how in the near future I hope to find myself and my husband out of Las Vegas and living in a place that:. Is green with real, live vegetation, not from fake lawns. Has water in the form of lakes, ponds, creeks or rain. I thr...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: Next Installment of Aiden & Nana's NY Trip
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Next Installment of Aiden and Nana's NY Trip. When I’d planned out this weeklong trip for Aiden and I, I’d originally intended on visiting Civil War sites, even considered a trip to Gettysburg, but even the best laid plans……. Oh, well, cemeteries and scenery would have to suffice. Aiden swears he saw a "ghost" flit from the. I’d forgotten about interm...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: It's the Journey AND the Destination that Counts
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Monday, September 9, 2013. It's the Journey AND the Destination that Counts. It was 1979 and I'd returned from a cross-country trip with Mike, the man who would, over time become my husband and the father of my two children. I'd recently graduated from the EATM. The teardrop trailer that had everything we needed. Babe", my faithful companion. Throughout the subsequent years, through...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: I'm Still Here!
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Tuesday, February 25, 2014. Oh, yes. It has been far too long since my last blog post. And, the blog posts of the past have certainly served their purpose: I got a lot of that angst stored up inside of me off of my chest. Lastly, A LOT has changed in the last half of the year and truthfully, some of it is personal and I'm not too willing to share it with the anonymous audience.
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This Gioia's Chronicles: Call Me Chatty Cathy
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Saturday, July 23, 2011. Call Me Chatty Cathy. You know those people who you are barely aquainted with that feel the need to tell you their whole life story? Ask a simple question and those people go on and on chronicling their entire existence without taking a single breath. Ever meet someone like that? Well, now you have. I am one of those people! I know when I’m doing, too&...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: Delayed Responses in an Instant Messaging World
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Saturday, March 15, 2014. Delayed Responses in an Instant Messaging World. I thought technology, you know: cell phones, emails, and the like was supposed to make our jobs and lives easier. Instead, I find that I am constantly waiting for a response to messages left on "instant transfer" messages. Do you feel the same? Please reply to this message so I know you have received it.
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This Gioia's Chronicles: Time Travel is Possible: In Your Dreams
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Friday, November 8, 2013. Time Travel is Possible: In Your Dreams. When that show Quantum Leap. Was on, I so wanted it to be true that we had the ability to time travel. But I realize that we all do have the ability, just not in the way that Hollywood or H.G. Wells have portrayed it. My time machine (and yours) is in our head. It's called dreaming. Haha i love that show! Pages from ...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: May 2009
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Saturday, May 30, 2009. The little sister with her three brothers, from left to right: Jimmy, Michael, and Joey). Michael and Sharon on their wedding day). But life challenges were not behind Michael yet. He was forced to go through another heart-wrenching and difficult period, one that was as painful as it was healing. Yes, my brother is an amazing, talented, loving man. As a w...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: Childbirth - My Way
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Monday, September 7, 2009. Childbirth - My Way. Prepared with knowledge and a sense of my rights as a patient, my then-husband and I informed my birth doctor of our desire to have a completely natural childbirth. The doctor agreed to honor our wishes, that is, until I was his patient in labor. Sadly, Dr. Abdul’s life and profession suffered because of his support and actio...This wa...
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This Gioia's Chronicles: A Night to Remember: My Date with The Monkees
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Sharing my experiences and stories about the people who I have encountered and the life lessons I've learned along the way. Sunday, August 25, 2013. A Night to Remember: My Date with The Monkees. My rock concert experiences have been few and far between. Although as a kid I was more into the Jackson Five (the animal lover in me listened to Michael Jackson’s Ben. Over and over) then the Osmonds, I saved up my allowance money to take my favorite aunt to see them in Buffalo for her birthday. She and I are t...
