Goodbye 2022

Another challenging year has flown by! It started with another winter of caution as Covid continued to create new variants that kept spreading. At the same time my sister Nancy was diagnosed with terminal cancer and she was under hospice care at home. We were devastated by the news, even though I knew she had been failing for quite a while. But I hung in there teaching yoga through the winter months. In April I was determined to get away and took a much needed road trip to Florida to see Nancy's daughter Rita, husband Mike and their three girls, Samantha, Hayley and Charlotte. I stopped on the way in Silver Springs and stayed with my cousin David and wife Christine and their son. I also got to see Dave's former wife Jen who I adore. Then it was off to the Carolinas with an overnight then a visit to Savanah, Georgie, and stop at Fernando Beach on Amelia Island, a stop in Melbourne to see Frank and his wife Anh. I had a lovely stay in Florida on Hutchinson Island and enjoyed Easter in Port St. Lucie with Rita, Mike and the Girls. It was a bitter sweet trip, knowing my sister could pass at any moment. On my way back I stopped on Jekyll Island and then stopped in North Carolina to see Sue and Bill Kruse. Then up to Norfolk and across the Bay Bridge Tunnel to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I spent a night in Ocean City MD, which was fun. 

A few weeks after my return to Connecticut, Nancy passed away on May 30th