That was the first jigsaw puzzle of 2022, gifted to me by a friend.
In 2022 we are almost-empty nesters. Nellie is still living independently a few miles away. Danny left the Army in 2017, signed up for a business degree at Adelphi University, and graduated at the end of 2021. He was living at home with us for most of that time, but in mid-2021 moved to an apartment of his own a third of a mile away.
My workload hasn't changed. I still do my weekly podcast and monthly diary for VDARE.com, supplemented by occasional articles and book reviews for print outlets. Rosie still works as a Medical Billing specialist.
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Here are some photographs from these years. Clicking on a picture brings up a bigger version.
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• January 1st 2022: As prescribed by immemorial tradition, Danny placed that one pesky last piece for me. |
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• January 25th 2022: New year, new life. This is Michael Joseph Depinto, 4 days old, with his grandpa … |
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• … grandma … |
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• … and Uncle Danny. Yep: looks like Sir Winston Churchill. |
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• In solitary splendor. |
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• The great snowfall of January 29th, 2022. We got eighteen inches. I had to do a lot of shovelling; but Basil came out to help. |
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• Mother and child, Michael now 17 days old. |
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• Late April 2022: Rosie & a posse of girlfriends escaped for a weekend at Myrtle Beach, SC. Cue Cindy Lauper. |
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• May 23rd 2022: The nuclear family at Danny's graduation ceremony. |