Credit Card Alert – The Uncut Version
I’ve been abducted by the Visa police. It’s horrible, I know. A complete stain to my shopping reputation.
Yes, I was declined today – after years and years of faithful, frugal usage of my L.L. Bean Visa card. My card went on SHOPCON 1 – Oh, horror!
And from me, the faithful paying merchant – foryears! Never a late payment – never just the minimum. I am a pay-in-full person.
It all started innocently enough – perhaps a bit too generous on my part, ..read more Going the Pan-Mass Distance to Cure Cancer
Published in baystateparent Magazine, August 2012
It was the death of Timothy Carty’s brother David that got him to ride his bike 190 miles from Sturbridge to Provincetown, MA in 2009 as part of the Pan-Mass Challenge. David had been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for ten years until he passed away at age 49 – leaving behind a wife and three young children.
“David was my oldest brother [of five siblings]. We were the closest. He was the one I looked ..read more 
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