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My friend Leisha’s parents were due to fly to New Jersey from England where they live, to visit their daughter and her family, as they do every year, at least once, when her father fell …
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June Donohue
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8/23/24
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I have a chair in my kitchen at the storm door where my cat, Daisy can sit and watch squirrels, chipmunks, birds, and whatever wild life passes by. As I was sitting there …
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June Donohue
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8/9/24
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I love sitting out in my backyard. There are so many things to enjoy there. For weeks I’ve had to cut down on that because of the intense heat. My son’s dog, Andy, likes to …
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June Donohue
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7/26/24
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A few days ago, my friend, Amalia called me to ask if I was going to the fourth of July parade and festivities that takes place in my town at Memorial Park.
When Jimmy was still …
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June Donohue
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7/12/24
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Some of these memories are from my husband’s childhood but I heard about them so often that I feel like I lived them myself. One was about the time when he and his friend, Bobby Schlosesser …
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June Donohue
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6/28/24
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When my husband was a kid, his friends used to call him Jamsey. In fact they continued to call him that when they all became adults.
Although some of them flat out refused to grow up, I …
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June Donohue
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6/14/24
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People who know me well are aware that I feel I must have at least one banana a day or I cannot function. So when my friend John Bale, who now lives in Conneticut, saw a truck full of bananas turn …
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June Donohue
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5/31/24
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In my last column, I wrote about funny people in my life. One of them was my sister-in-law, Marion. I thought of another saying of hers that I forgot to include. Since she was a hair dresser, people …
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June Donohue
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5/17/24
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My great-grandson, Scotty, is now six months old and his father, John McFarlane, was trying to pick a time when the whole family would be able to visit us in River Edge. John and his family live in …
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June Donohue
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4/19/24
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My actual birthday was on February 21. When people hear my name they sometimes ask me if I was born in June and my answer is “No but my parents didn’t like the name …
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June Donohue
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3/8/24
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To continue with my story about my friends the Orrs, I will be writing about Willy who was a boy they took in from the fresh add fund and continued to do so throughout the years. When Willy grew …
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June Donohue
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2/9/24
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When I was a kid, a popular expression was DRY UP if you wanted to shut someone up. Well apparently I was asleep at the wheel because for days now I have had very dry skin despite …
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June Donohue
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1/3/24
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As I mentioned in my last column, my friend Maria was a firm believer in Miracles. Even though a doctor had told her that her son, Eddy should be institutionalized because he’d never …
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June Donohue
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12/29/23
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I first met Maria at a special nursery school for developmentally disabled children. It was obvious right away that her son, Eddy was seriously disabled. We mothers were going for coffee after …
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June Donohue
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12/15/23
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I was entitled to a free turkey from Shoprite but I didn’t want to cook so I sent my friend, Leisha to deliver it to the Center for Food Action in Hackensack in plenty of time for the recipient …
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June Donohue
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12/1/23
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Scotty is now one month old. I haven’t seen him in person yet because he lives in Tom’s River, which is about two hours from here, but I get a lot of pictures of him, courtesy of …
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June Donohue
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11/17/23
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I remember going to Mrs. Maulick’s house, as a child, on Halloween. She lived just up the street from us and my friends and I would be falsely accused, by her, of coming back a second time so …
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June Donohue
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11/3/23
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My son, Michael often points out to me that I keep interrupting him when he speaks to me. In fact it’s an every day occurrence. What I tell him is that when I die, I will leave him one …
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June Donohue
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10/20/23
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The following are TV commercials that I find annoying because they are outrageously inaccurate. When my developmentally disabled son, Jimmy, was young and he saw a commercial about a product …
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The following are TV commercials that I find annoying because they are outrageously inaccurate. When my developmentally disabled son Jimmy was young and he saw a commercial about a product he liked …
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June Donohue
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9/22/23
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I hate to put my air conditioning on, even when it is 90 degrees outside. I would rather just open the windows. But of course when it is that hot, all I am doing is letting more hot air in. So in …
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June Donohue
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9/8/23
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My friend, Leisha’s parents, were getting ready to fly here from England when her father fell the day before they were to leave. They usually stay for a month when they come here but instead …
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June Donohue
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8/11/23
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There are many things coming up in my life that I am looking forward to. One is the birth of my first great-grandson, Scotty who is due in October. Another is my 90th birthday which is in …
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by June Donohue
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7/28/23
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The first mistake that Mike and I made was not getting the weather report the day before we left for Marg’s party in Roscoe. If we had gone to our house in Callicoon Center the …
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June Donohue
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7/14/23
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I am a big fan of Ramona Jan. I met her over ten years ago when we did a skit at the North Branch Inn that John Bale was running. We were to make something up on our own that portrayed us …
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June Donohue
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6/30/23
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