July 2021

I have been thinking about my next cookie for a year now and it has been decided: A Chocolate Brownie Cookie! Since I am a CHOCOLATE LOVER, this cookie would have to be perfect- chewy, soft, molten like, and rich. I have worked on this cookie for months now, and it has just not been […]

My whole life, all I wanted was to be like everybody else.  Having a labeled disability, I was always aware that I was different, and how I had to work quite a bit harder just to keep up with the rest of the big world if I wanted to be in it.  Now that the

I will tell you what I do. First you should know that when I was in Highschool my friends from when I was younger had no interest in a friendship with me. In fact they had no interest in me at all. I use to come home crying and lock myself in my room wondering

I stay up late at night, often reading messages and emails to me and my Mom Rosemary. We get so many emails and notes about other young adults and children struggling in their schools and social circles to be accepted. They are sometimes in dummy down classes and not included in many sports or activities.

I just got home from the annual conference for The Connecticut Down Syndrome Congress. I was asked to be there Keynote Speaker today October 19, 2019.  My Mom and I drove down to Waters Edge Resort in Westbrook Ct on the 18th.  We were invited to dinner with the Board the night before.  We chatted

I think back a lot and realize that all my years of struggling and hardships of trying to be accepted is exactly what made me be brave and willing to take risks in my life. I really did not have many choices unless I wanted to continue feeling sad for myself and go know where.

Well for those who don’t know me, I was born with a cleft palate, that cause speaking issues and eating issues. I had to have a pretty big surgery when I was four.  All the muscles in the roof of my mouth were not connected and the hanging palate in the back of my throat

I think about only two years ago when WBZ News followed me to drop off my 10 packages of cookies at The Golden Goose to sell. They stopped me and asked who I was and about my cookies. Then they said “Can we tell your story on our TV news show”. I was like hmmmm…YES!!!

The story behind the Amazing Cookie – I went to Vermont with my family to ski. I decided skiing was fun when I was younger but it was getting harder and I was just not that into it to work harder at it. I decided to stay back with my friend and go to the

What I am excited about this month : We are having a surprise Royal Birthday Party for my grandmother who is 80. We are decorating ROYAL and all wearing fascinators. We call my Grandmother Mimi and she is an amazing leader of our family. My Grandfather Pop Pop died 12 years ago in a train