This restaurant, Pisces, was our favorite at Cape Cod. Our friend, Joe Gibbons, worked as one of my three great friends at Covidien. His partner, Steve Wynne and Joe lived in a house in Truro in Cape Cod for the summer, and we spent each year seeing them a lot.
Early on YouTube, I listened as much as I can about Aphasia. Eugene Speech Therapy makes a lot of videos on Aphasia and it has been helpful for me.
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1966 – 2011: Joe Paterno became the first head football coach at Penn State. Until the summary of 2020, there have been four coaches since that time. I looked at each picture the others day that I have a coach with a picture with me. 2011: Tom Bradley was an internal coach for Penn State.
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When I first started with our new technology company, a smaller company merged with a larger company. During our first meeting, the executives from the “new” company always talking like all of their leaders were “rock-stars.” Many of us who were hardworking figured we were outstanding, but people did not recognize us as “rock-stars.” It
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It was 1977, and it was the end of my senior year at Penn State. I realized that I started to find about finding a job. By the time I went to the career services, I had liked Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, but they didn’t have any interviews for the savings open, so I put
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Everyone knew about Jackie Robinson. Number 42. He was a great baseball player and was the first African American for the “major” leagues. Branch Rickey helped Jackie Robinson, who was the General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers took the pre-season to Cuba to watch games in Havana. Bobby Madura
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When I worked in Covidien, our headquarters was in 15 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, in Massachusetts. I had an apartment during the week and worked on to the weekend to Philadelphia. I worked for Covidien from 2007 until 2011. Almost every Friday, I would take a flight from Providence Airport at T.F. Green Airport. It was
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As I continue to see progress on Aphasia many of my vocabulary. With starting back in therapy after Florida, we went over some of the tests to see how we did. In many areas, I have done great. However, we talked about something called “Working Memory (WM)” or “Short Working Memory (SWM)”. It seems that
It was March 16, 2016, and I was taking the Amtrak to Philadelphia on Friday. I had a nice nap and realized that Philadelphia was the next stop. I got up quickly, grabbed my bag, and got ready for the next stop. Then I realized that the next stop was Wilmington, not Philadelphia. I held
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From October 2007 until December 2011, I worked for Covidien in the Boston area. My first apartment was in Quincy, but after one year, I moved to Wellesley. As usual, I commuted back to Philadelphia every weekend. Occasionally, Becky would come back to Boston for the weekend. On Sunday in 2008, Becky had looked
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