Tributes

  Born 01/20/1936 as Dorothy Mauriello, at home during a snowstorm. She lived in the Bronx until moving to Westchester in 1998. She worked as the Administrative Assistant at Amalgamated Housing for years until retiring to care for her youngest granddaughter. She was married 1957-1986 to Jack A...

SONYA JO FILION GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. 1/22 /1971-6/8/2019 BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES BABY GIRL . THIS IS MY  tribute is to MY BEAUTIFUL SISTER Sonya Jo Filion. She is /was oldest sister.. who passed away THIS YEAR on June 8th of 2019. Sonya there's so much I'd wish I'd known and so many things I wante...

I wanted to do a tribute for my sister Sonya Jo Filion. Age 49   She was a Mother, Mema, Mother in Law,Daughter, Daughter in law , Sister, Wife , Sister in law, Neice , Neighbor, Co-worker and a Friend .. oh and she had adopted children to ..they know who they are.. Sonya was born a blonde hair ...

 

  I admit. I am Daddy’s Girl. And I am proud of it. But being Daddy’s Girl comes with expectations and standards. A lot of expectations and very high standards. Especially when your daddy is the Reverend Joey Umali. As a pastor’s child, I was expected to behave appropriately (some even exp...

  This is my tribute to Great Illusion. This one is by Edward H Adelson. Square 'A' is the same colour as Square 'B' - yes really ! Prove it by masking all other squares. Don't always trust what you see. The mind can play strange tricks !    ...

When my husband, your firstborn son, told me you passed away in a foreign land, I did not believe him. I could not move. I was in shock. I sat on the stairs for a long time, dazed. Then hot tears came rushing down. What happened? Were you in pain? Were you alone? I didn’t even get the chance to...

I used to read his poems in course books and knew him as our national poet so Iqbal’s name was not new for me. Giving children an excellent piece of advice in the form of a story but in the style of poetry always fascinated me. As I grew up I felt so attached to Iqbal’s poetry in which he ad...

While scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, a line caught my attention that “the influence of a good teacher can never be erased”. These words took me back to memories of my tuition when I was in 8th grade and the subjects became more difficult especially mathematics. I also had to take the bo...