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2019 Edition Published Annually for Friends and Relatives Season’s Greetings

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involved in my improv com-edy troupe, acting as both a performer and co-president. I have performed in two shows and will be perform-ing in a third before the year is up.

I am living in a house off-campus with three of my friends, and I have been enjoying having my parents come visit for games and my shows.

I went to Denver to visit Erin over my fall break and really loved the red rocks, food, and overall beauty

of Denver. My favorite parts, however, were getting to see one of my favorite musicals at a dinner theatre and playing with Erin and James’ new kitten.

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Milestones 1-2Who’s Who 2New Beginnings 3-5Travel 6-12Health 12- 14Recreation 14-20Arts and Entertainment 21-22

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This year has been such an excit-ing one for me. I started the year off in January by traveling to Florence, Italy to begin my semester abroad. Only a few days after I arrived, I turned twenty-one and got to cele-brate with new friends and lots of delicious Italian wine! The five-months I was in Italy left me with some of the most beautiful, valuable and insane memories I think I will ever have. (See highlights below.)

Over the summer, I worked from home for a consulting firm that spe-cializes in gender and social justice work. I enjoyed a few trips during the summer, including one to D.C. to visit my best friend, Aleena, and one to the beach to celebrate the 4th of July. The only way my family seems to know how to celebrate the 4th is by creating an extravagant “golf cart” and “driving” it in a parade — the golf cart was not really a golf cart because it was en-

tirely home-made and it did not have a motor, so it was powered by us pushing it.

In August, I be-gan my senior year at UNC. Over the semes-ter, I have been highly

MilestonesItaly, Twenty-One, and Almost Done!Erin’s Big Move

It’s been a year full of changes and adven-ture for me! In August I moved to Denver,

Colorado with my boyfriend, James. I am getting my Masters in Research Methods and Statis-tics at the Univer-sity of Denver, and I’m really loving my program, pro-fessors, and class-mates. I have a job as a junior program

evaluator with my professor, and I’m loving that, as well.

My new apartment is awesome, especially because I can see the Rockies from my back porch, which means I can watch the sunset over them every night. My apartment is even more awesome because it’s the home of my new kitty, Sutton (named after my favorite Broadway star, Sutton Foster). We ad-opted her when she was three months old, and we love her so much. She loves sleeping, sneezing and trying to eat cream cheese. Since being in Denver, I’ve been able to do lots of awesome hikes, and I hope to be able to do a few

more before winter comes.

This year I was also very lucky to get to travel a lot. Mom, Dad and I visited Emma in France for her spring break. We went to a bunch of cute little French towns, including Mont St. Michel, St. Malo and Normandy. It was silly, fun, and a tad bit stressful, just like all good Haseley family trips.

In May, I went on a road trip with my friend Anna to Waco, TX, Santa Fe, the Grand Can-yon, and Durango, Colorado. We had a great time, but road trips are exhausting! After that I went to the beach with my family, my Grand-ma Pat, and James, which was a blast as usual,

especially with our Finding Nemo - themed golf cart built by Dad and Emma. And finally in July, James and I went to Ireland for a week. We stayed in County Wicklow, about an hour south of Dublin. I loved Ireland and would love to go back, especial-ly since my name means “Ireland.”

All in all a super fun and exciting year! Hope to see all of you soon!

-Erin Haseley

Erin at the Grand Canyon

Ein and James at Glendalough, Ireland

Sutton

Emma Carnivale in Venice, Italy

Emma performing improv with members of her

comedy troupe

2019 Edition The Haseley Herald

Almost Done continued from page 1I just applied for

graduation, which will take place in May of next year. I will be get-ting my degree in both History and Women’s and Gender Studies with a minor in Studio Art. No, I do not know what I want to do post-grad, so please do not ask! Hopefully you will know by next year’s Haseley Herald.

Because there are too many memories for me to share here, I am

making a brief “top moments” list of all my favorite things I got to do while abroad.

• Live literally 20 feet from the infamous Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral with Brunelleschi’s breathtaking duomo. Not to mention I lived within the walls of the historic center, which is a UNESCO World Her-itage Site.

• Eat soooooooo much delicious food. My favorites included gnocchi with pesto, schiacciata bread, ri-sotto (which I’m quite good at making!), gelato in any shape, flavor, or form, pastiera napoletana.

• Travel to Venice for Carniva-le and experience the beauty and calm of Murano and Bu-rano (near-by islands known for colorful glass and painted buildings).

• Take a drawing class where each week we got to go to a dif-ferent museum, garden, or oth-er site within the city to sketch.

Our first day we sketched the tomb of Michelange-lo, which was a daunting and powerful experience.

• Travel to the breathtaking Cinque Terre region — (\highly recommend this!

• Have three of my best friends, Soma-ya, Lindsey, and Genna come visit me. Not to mention my whole fami-ly coming over to see me and explore the Brittany and Normandy regions of France!

• Stay the night on an island, Le Mont St Michel, that used to be a prison.

• Attend a gelato festival where I got to try over 24 different flavors of gelato over two days. Mojito was my favorite flavor.

• Visit both the crater of Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii (very cool for a history person like myself)

• Travel to Capri—the single most beautiful place I think I have ever been.

• Travel to Sevilla, Spain where I ate my weight in patatas bravas and drank my weight in sangria!

• Travel across the Strait of Gibraltar via boat to visit Morocco for two days where I got to visit the infa-mous blue city of Chefchaouen

If you ever need any recommendations, let me know! -Emma Haseley

Emma & friend Katie at Gelato Festival

Emma sketching in the garden for her art class

Emma sitting on the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, Italy

Ed and Janet Haseley (p. 6) married in 1953 and Ed’s 7-year-old sister Ruthanne, who died in 2015, came to live with them ten months later. Her husband is Ed Rhem (p. 12) and their children are Shelly (p. 16) and Michael (p. 15) and Mikes's wife Bre. Shelly’s husband is Blair Keeter, daughter, Audrey Brooke Keeter and son Beckett Ed-ward Keeter. Janet’s brother, Jack Long, died in 2016. Ed Haseley started our annual holiday newsletter in 1957. He died in 2002.

Identical twin Sue Haseley and her husband Stuart Miller (p. 11) have four children, Niles (p. 13-14), Andrew (p. 14), Emily (p. 3) and Cameron (p. 4-5).

Identical twin Lynne Haseley and her husband Scott Davenport who died in 2010 (p. 6-7) have a daughter, Blair (p. 8-9), and Scott’s niece, Anna Jackson. Scottie and Jennifer are Scott’s children by a former marriage. Scottie and his wife Kim (p. 19) have two daughters and a son, Reese, Colleen and Everett (“E”). Jennifer’s husband is John Phillips (p. 18) and their children are Ellena and William.

Karen Haseley (p. 16-17) is unmarried but her boyfriend Jeffrey Dulberg (p. 12-13) has been an integral part of the Haseley Clan for 20 years.

Allan Haseley and his wife Kelly (p. 10) have two daughters, Erin (p. 1) and Emma (p. 1-2).

The Haseleys “adopted” the Maliks 52 years ago when they arrived in the USA and Steve and Allan have been best friends ever since. Steve's family consists of spouse Kathleen, son Jordan and daughters Skylar, Macey and Samantha (p. 21).

The Malik Clan also consists of Mom Gaynor and Hans Frank-fort; Tania Malik and her husband Jeff Schenk, their son Connor and daughter Marlowe and Jeff’s daughter Kristi; and Andrea Malik Roe and her husband Steve Roe and sons Dylan and Cole (p. 20). Hans Frankfort’s children are Mary Head (6 children), Edward (2 children), Susan Willingham (2 children) and Patrick (one child).

Harry and Ellen Dan (p. 21-22) are Karen’s best friends. They have identical twins, Kaitlin and Kristin.

Who’s WhoIn response to pleas of “I can’t sort out who is who in your family” here is a capsule family tree of the

Haseley Herald members:


New Beginnings

Hi fam! My name is Sun-ny. My mom says I’m a Hase-ley-Miller. She also says we have a BIG family. I can’t wait to meet everyone! I’m ten months old (as of 11/3/19). I’ll probably be a whole year old when some of y’all read this. It’s been the best year of my life!

My mom adopted me in March when I was teeny tiny. I’m a Bassador. I get my lazi-ness from my Basset Hound dog mom and the craziness from my Lab dog dad. I love playing with my big sister, Luna, and brother, Malbec. Malbec doesn’t always like playing with me though. I also love going to the park and playing with sticks.

Before my mom got me, she celebrated New Year's in Brooklyn with her brothers and sister. She also went on a ski trip adventure in February with a few of her friends.

My mom took a trip to Aruba in March and left me with Aunt Rebecky and Uncle Max. Mom spent the week going to different beaches, snorkeling, and even got to ride on a pirate ship. She said it’s the happiest place in the world!

In April I met my grandparents when they came down for Mom’s 27th birthday. We had a big party with so many other puppies!

In May, Mom went to a music festival in Atlanta (she likes listening to music). I met my Uncle Drew at the end of May! He came down for Memorial Day. We went to Greensboro for a concert and swam in the pool.

I went on my first road trip to NY for Uncle Max and Aunt Rebecky’s bachelor/bachelorette weekend in Old Forge. I met all my mom’s best friends from Ithaca! My favorite part was when Mom took me out in a canoe!

The Life of SunnyMom went to another music festival in

June called Bonnaroo. It must be fun because she goes back every year. Maybe next year she’ll take me! My aunts and uncles went with her, and a bunch of their friends.

In July, I got to go to a sleepover and day camp with lots of other dogs including my cousin Stout. I stayed there for two nights when Mom was in Utica running the Boiler-maker. I played with all the dogs and swam in the puppy pool.

We took another road trip to NY in Au-gust. My best friend Petey, Aunty Shelbz, and Aunty Fi drove with us from NC. First

we went to MillerFest, the best festival in the whole world, in Rensselaerville. We played games, ate food, and heard a band play! It was SO fun.

We spent a whole week in New Hartford after MillerFest. My mom officiated her two best friends', (Aunt Rebecky and Uncle Max) wedding. You can call her Minister Miller. I didn’t get to go to the wedding but everyone said it was amazing and the best party ever.

The second biggest news of the year (I’m the first) is that Mom started a job at a new company, Pendo. They’re mascot is a pink dinosaur. She’s a sales engineer and loves working there.

This fall Mom went to two more weddings. She brought me with her to Ashe-

Sunny and Emily

Emily officiating marriage of Rebecky & Max

ville for our cousin Sarah’s wedding. We went for a hike and I met the Miller side of the family!

2019 has been a very full year for us. I’m looking forward to many more years and lots of adventures with Mom, Luna, and Malbec.

-Sunnny, (Emily, Luna and Malbec) Miller

Luna and Sunny

Sue, Stuart and Emily

Malbec



Cam to JapanIt all started

when I was con-tacted via email by someone who had found my resume on a job board’s website. This was on June 20th, 2018. I had been apply-ing for software developer jobs in a few different cit-ies within the US while simultane-ously submitting

my resume to English teaching job applica-tions abroad. This wasn’t my first time ap-plying for English teaching jobs in other countries. In fact, while I was job searching and couch surfing in California in early spring 2018, I even got an offer to teach in China af-ter passing the interview stages. I decided to turn it down in hopes of finding a job in Los Angeles or San Francisco where I was looking to be a developer. I didn’t end up reaching that goal and I still view it as a failure, but at least I learned from it. Needless to say, what I think I really desired back then was to be somewhere outside of the United States working and ex-periencing a different way of life. And so, in June, 2018, as the opportunity presented itself upon the inward flow of the tides, I decided to ride along with it as it ebbed out into the open ocean.

The visa process did take some time be-tween August and December but once I re-ceived my COE (Certificate of Eligibility) from the Japanese Embassy in New York, I

was set to go. I left JFK airport on January 15th and arrived at Narita airport on January 17th

with a connecting flight in Helsinki, Finland the previous day. I remember feeling a mix of nervousness and excitement inside of my stomach and accompanying my thoughts. The feelings came in waves and though they were mixed, one thing was for certain, I was on my way to work and live in Japan without a return ticket.

After I landed, I made my way by train to a small town called Shin-Kamagaya. It was here that I met my manager, John, from England, and he took me to the apartment that my new company had arranged for me. Shin-Kamaga-ya is very suburban and doesn’t really offer much for young adults. Luckily, it’s about a 40 minute train ride to Tokyo, though, so on my days off I would go there or to closer cities to explore.

While getting settled, I had a pocket wifi device for internet and brought it around with me when I was figuring out how to get to and from work. It’s very convenient for traveling

in Japan and recommended to anyone who is visiting for a week or longer.

For the first few days before I started work-ing, I had to go to Tokyo for job training in a place called Shinagawa. Shinagawa is one of the 23 wards of Tokyo (in the south of the city) and a ma-jor international business hub. During the training I met a number of people from other English speak-ing countries, places like Australia, Ireland, England and Canada. There were four of us that ended up getting along pretty well together so we decided to get together after the train-ing days were through. Even though each of us were placed in different locations we met up to hang out on a few occasions. Unfortunately, the three of them have left Japan.

As the weekend following the training came to a close, I prepared for my first day on the job. The name of one of the places that I taught was Tsudanuma. This was my home branch and probably the one that I became the most comfortable with. I worked there every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. On Mondays I was with a guy named John who happened to be from Rochester, NY (small world). He was a friendly coworker and helped me get up to speed with the teaching style of the lessons. On Tuesdays and Thurs-days I worked at Matsudo and Shinkamaga, respectively. Since I was teaching at an eikai-wa (conversation school) the lessons centered

Cameron Miller

Ochanomizu Shrine, Tokyo

around simply having a conversation with the student or group of students. At first, this was a little tricky because as you’re trying to get to know someone, or just have a conversation,

you need to be listening to what they say and how they say it and then correct them as you give your re-sponse. I started to get the hang of it probably around my third week on the job and became comfortable, with help, after a month of teaching. The lessons are 45 minutes long with a ten minute break between each. The ages of the stu-dents range from 5-70+ and the types of lessons

that I taught included private, group (up to six people), kids, or a combination of the three of these.

After about five or six months the teaching became basically repetition and I found my-self going on autopilot to do the same mun-dane routine during lessons. Since the book that I used to teach with was a bit boring, some students would opt for just a conversation les-son. Sometimes this was nice as it allowed for more variety within the lesson if the student was outgoing. If the student wasn’t, however, it became more of a question and answer inter-action rather than an engaging conversation. Around August, I realized that I wasn’t being challenged enough in this role so I decided to search for a new position, particularly a soft-ware developer job. Once I began searching actively, I spoke to a number of recruiters

Kegon Falls, Tochigi


Cam continued from page 4and realized that there is more opportunity to work as a developer in Tokyo than I origi-nally thought. I decided to take steps towards obtaining that posi-tion. In October I left the English teaching job with NOVA and started a new English teaching job with a group called Anchor Studio. Though I am still teaching English, the working condi-tions at the new school are a bit better than the previous. The change also allowed me to pick up another role as a programming teacher. Both are part-time positions and I plan to re-main on the path of teaching until a developer opportunity opens up.

Before going any further into the not so exciting work-related part of my time in Ja-pan, I want to talk about the amazing things this country has to offer. Where better to start than the famous Cup Noodle Museum in Yo-kohama, a place that I had no idea about be-fore meeting a new friend named Niki. Niki is from California and she is half Japanese, half Chinese. I met her at an Australia Day event in February. She’s an English teacher, too, but she teaches at a high school rather than a pri-vate company. We are the same age and she has become a nice friend to have since she is American and has a fun sense of humor. She proposed the idea of heading to the Cup Noo-dle Museum maybe around my second or third week of living in Japan and I’m glad she did. It was interesting to see a fairly large muse-um dedicated to cup noodles. There was one

room that had all cup noodle containers that were made by this company, Cup Noodles, stretching back to the 1960s. I think there had to have been over 1500 containers posted on

the wall. There was an exhibit dedicated to the founder, who was actual-ly Taiwanese, and a small video about the histo-ry of how cup noodles were created and spread throughout the world.

After visiting the mu-seum we headed over to Chinatown in Yokohama (the biggest Chinatown in Japan) and wandered

the streets for a while until we decided to stop for some shorumpo.

That was around the beginning of February. I realize now that I should have started my HH a lot sooner this year since there is more that can be shared but alas, being pressed for (or rather, out of) time I will conclude here with a very brief summary of the highlights.

Sometimes the best thing about being in a new place is when someone comes to visit and you can show them around. I was really happy when Niles visited and we had a lot of fun run-ning around Tokyo. One night the two of us were out until the sun came up. We watched a

fireworks show (花火 = hanabi, literal trans-lation is “fire flower”), relaxed near an ancient temple (Shinobazu) located inside of one of Tokyo’s largest parks, and attempted to film a small Godzilla action video in the middle of one of the craziest parts of the city called Shin-juku (more specifically Kabukicho).

Throughout the year I’ve met a variety of friendly Japanese people and people from different parts of the world. I’ve been able to travel to several interesting places, as well. Outside of Japan, I went to Thailand and South Korea. In Thailand, I attended the sec-ond wedding that I’ve ever been to and it was a great experience. It was the marriage of Niles’ friend from Chapel Hill, Jason, and Jason’s partner, Su. Since the only other wedding that I’ve been to is Shelly’s, I didn’t know what to expect but I’m thankful that they let me join and happy I could attend. It was nice to see a full rainbow outside once we finished rehears-ing the parts of the wedding ceremony.

Prefectures in Japan are similar to the states in America. So far I’ve been able to visit eight prefectures within Japan: Chiba, Tokyo, Saita-ma, Kanagawa, Tochigi, Gunma, Nara and Kyoto. Similar to the states, each prefecture

has a slightly different lifestyle than the rest. Kyoto and Nara are home to count-less historic destinations and sights that travelers can visit. Chiba, Saitama, and Kanagawa are all adjacent to Tokyo, they pretty much have commuter towns and some hidden gem locations that are fun to explore. Tochigi and Gunma are mountainous regions and great areas for outdoor enthusiasts. Tokyo, itself, is both a prefecture (state) and a city, similar to New York.

-Cameron Miller

Yoyogi Park, Tokyo

Todaiji Temple, Nara


TravelExceptional Milestones

October 2018 - May 12, 2019 I lived in New Bern at Lynne’s. We celebrat-ed both Thanksgiving and Christmas in Lynne’s new (as of December 2018) home. We were able to put up Karen’s artificial tree specifically to display the Grifton ornaments, and will do the same this year. Lynne also had a live tree for all of her ornaments.

One of the most memorable events for me was one of my 2018 Christmas gifts. My kids commissioned Jack Anglin to paint a portrait of my grandmother, Nana, and gave me the painting for Christmas. This painting travels with me to Rensselaerville and to New Bern so I can always see it. It hangs with my mother's portrait in both places.

The other special Christmas gift was one I gave to Sue and Lynne. It was a twin zygosity DNA test. After 62 years, we learned that Sue and Lynne are actually identical twins, not fra-ternal as I had been told when they were born!

Lynne and Karen went with me to three dance weekends, (CDH in Morgantown, WV; Dance Flurry in Saratoga Springs, NY; and Gypsy Meltdown in Lake Wylie, SC) and I also attended two Buhrmaster Barn dances in Albany, NY. It’s always good to re-connect with all the friendly dancers and musicians and listen to the dance music!

I have been having round the clock caregiv-ers helping me this year. One of them, Debra,

came with me to Rensselaerville and helped Karen as we spent from mid-May to mid-October, 2019 in R’ville.

Events in Rensselaerville this year: visits from cousins Phil and Steve Smith from CA, Adrian Tru-ini from NYC, cousins Alison, David and Asher from NJ, Jeffrey from MD; MillerFest9; church hostess for one of the church lun-cheons as well as the first “house church” held in October. The Pres-

byterian church in R'ville is only open during the summer and the congrega-tion has now started offering monthly “house church” which we were the first to host, before we left in October.

As usual, Allan drove me both di-rections when it was time to migrate. We made it to New Bern in time for the Craven Cancer Classic (Oct 18, 2019), which Lynne, Allan, Sue, Kelly, Ed and Mike all played in. Karen volunteered since she is not a golfer.

It’s been a challenging year as the ability to express my thoughts is getting progressively worse. I thank all the caregivers and my chil-dren, family and friends, for taking the time

to decipher my thoughts. I know it is challenging for all of us, but I couldn’t ask for more caring people to surround me,

Speaking of car-ing people, My son, Allan, does won-ders at thinking out of the box. He spent time in New Bern before he drove me south to prepare my room at Lynne’s, making it more accessible for me. He designed and built a shower in my bedroom, so I no lon-ger have to navigate the narrow bathroom at Lynne’s. It’s great to be able to shower in my own room. (See photo of Allan’s creation above.) My room also has all my Rensselaer-ville pictures and photos, so I am home.

-Janet Haseley

Janet's birthday dinner

Steven Smith (standing), Phil Smith holding Ruth Smith's

picture, Janet in R'ville

Bedroom shower

Which is not a bad thing…I hosted Thanksgiving here at my house

for the second time - something Mom always did in Grifton. Home is where the heart is; Thanksgiving is where Mom is. We only had 18 this year with the Rhems and some Millers - no Blair or Anna - we missed them.

I attended four contra dances this year (CDH in West Vir-ginia; Dance Flurry in Saratoga Springs, NY; Gypsy Meltdown in Charlotte, NC; Feet Retreat near Pine-hurst, NC). Although most of the dances I attended, I went as Mom’s caregiver, I at-tended Feet Retreat as a helper and participant with my friend Jack instead of as Mom’s caregiver. These dances are something Mom and her brother, Uncle Jack, did often - working behind the scenes.

No I am not wearing plaid shirts and jeans with black tennis shoes - I have to draw the line somewhere…

Besides dances, the year was filled with several trips. January found me on a Caribbean cruise with several of the WEBS friends. We visited Nassau, Half Moon Cay, Grand Turk, and Dominican Republic. In May, I went on a bike and barge trip with Blair and Anna, ten others from upstate NY and eight from New

Lynne Davenport

I Am Becoming My Mother


Janet Haseley


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Bern. The trip started in Venice, Italy and we rode between towns each day and stayed on the barge at night. It was a great way to see the countryside. The towns included Pellastrina, Adria, Zelo, Mantua, and we ended up in Vero-na. Two other friends and I stayed a few more days and explored Florence. We took a pizza and gelato class and visited a winery. We also went to Pisa.

I had my usual trips to Rensselaer-ville: two weeks in June and two weeks in July to see Mom. These trips included a hike to the falls with Kim, Jack and Ed; a visit to Sue and Stuart’s camp; MillerFest, and the Boilermaker run. Sue, Emily and I did the three mile run - which ended at the same after party - a lot less effort and we say we have graduated to the little run.

I also attended Emily’s roommate’s (Re-becca’s) wedding. Emily was the officiant. We also hosted the church luncheon at the R’ville house as we usually do each summer.

Other trips included a trip to DC in March to see Anna and Blair and attend the Fleet-wood Mac concert. Also in March, I was able to go to the ACC tournament in Charlotte. We ran into Tania and Jeff - small world (thanks Allan). In September, several of us went to Boone to see Linda and John and in October took a trip to Hilton Head for the Pledge the

Pink. We walked ten miles on three different islands on three different days: Dataw Island, Hunting Island and Fripp Island. We stayed on Fripp Island and traveled around in a golf cart. Pledge the Pink is a fund raiser for breast cancer.

Another highlight was a trip in November to Paris, France and then to Madrid, Spain to see Blair. Kathy and Becky and I visited all

the sites in Paris - enjoyed the Sacre Coeur, a beauti-ful basilica, and Montmar-tre, where all the artists are painting outside. It was a gorgeous view of Paris as it sits up on a hill. We had ba-guettes, cheese, crepes and of course vin. We walked a ton and saw the Mona Lisa, Arc de Triumphe and of course, the Eiffel Tow-er. Our friends, Maria and Garth, had invited us to stay at their air B and B – it was a great location to everything.

In Madrid, the lighting of the streets hap-pened during our visit – it was like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. We ate potatos bravos and drank sangria and vino rojo and saw a flamenco show. The highlight was vis-iting Blair and seeing where she is living for this year abroad. She and her roommate were great hostesses and we got to meet several of her friends.

Mom was with me in New Bern until Moth-er’s Day and returned in mid-October. We at-tended the Boar’s Head festival with Gaynor in January and Mom has attended some of the happy hours with me at the local (largest in the world) Harris Teeter which opened last

year. I attended the Heart Ball in January and the Boys and Girls Club fund raiser in October.

The golf tour-nament in Octo-ber was another huge success - this was the tenth annual. Sue and three friends flew down to golf in the tournament. Our team won second place. Al-lan, Kelly, Mike and Ed also attended - a mini family reunion with Karen and Annie volunteering.

June was Grandma camp. I always enjoy having the five grandkids for a week and get a chance to go to the Cow Café, the pool, play-ing croquet, tubing on the boat, and hanging out with them. They have all grown up to be such fun kids.

By the way, I have a new friend, Jack An-glin - actually he has been a friend of Mom’s for 20 years through the contra dancing com-munity. We connected in Rensselaerville last summer and he met us at the Dance Flurry in February. In April, Jack and I attended a wed-ding in Charlotte and reconnected with the “Hilton Head” girls. Then in May, we attend-ed Jack’s high school class reunion and I got a chance to visit Pittsburgh and meet his mother. We had a great time. In June we took a trip to Rhode Island and I flew home for Scott’s 50th class reunion. We went to a UNC game in Chapel Hill in September.

Tania Malik, Sue Miller, Lynne Davenport, Jill Spellman

Grandma Lynne camp

Jack repaired the dock steps so we have had the boat out a lot more this summer and have kept it behind the house for a few weeks at a time.

I have been enjoying the new house and entertaining. The annual Jeans and Pearls party had to be rescheduled because of Hurricane Flor-ence so we had it at my house in April.

I finally got a new roof on my house which was damaged from Hurricane Florence in September 2018 and had four huge trees taken down. I sold

the old house to good friends and closed the end of October.

I wish everyone a joyous holiday season and happy new year!!

-Lynne Davenport

Lynne Davenport and Jack Anglin


Hola from Ma-drid! I think this is my first time to write a Haseley Herald from another country, but I know I am not the first Haseley to do it (@Niles and @Cam-eron). This year has been a whirl wind of travel, within the US and outside of the US.

The first trip of the year came after spending the holidays in New Bern. Tyler surprised me with a trip to NYC for New

Year's to see Phish and ring in 2019 with Niles, Andrew, Emily and Cameron. We drove up a few days after Christmas and spent the long weekend exploring Brooklyn, going to the concert, and enjoying New Year's dinner at a cidery planned by Andrew’s girlfriend, Kara.

After the holidays I went back to Charlotte to continue working as an account manager at a marketing company called Phase 3. While I enjoyed my co-workers, I did not enjoy my role at the company so started to look into other options. I started apply-ing for jobs in Washington D.C., and also decided to go out on a limb and apply for an Assistant English Teacher in Madrid, Spain. One Thursday in February, I received an email that I was not accepted for the job in D.C. and two days later I received another email saying I was accepted for the

North Carolina to Spainteaching position in Spain. As you can assume from my first sentence, I decided to pursue the latter.

Before leaving the country for a year, I had some trips to complete. In March, I flew out to Denver, Colorado to celebrate my long time friend, Solana’s, birthday and go skiing at Key Stone Ski Mountain. We went for the long weekend and enjoyed celebrating St. Patty’s Day on the slopes, as well as plenty of Irish coffees at the lodge.

In April, I went to Raleigh to go to a mu-sic festival called Dreamville with a group of friends from college and Emily. We enjoyed spending the weekend exploring Raleigh and celebrating our friend, Lily’s, birthday. A few weeks later, I was off visiting another friend from college, Callie, in Chicago. It was my first time in the windy city and I loved it! It was end of April and we received a good few inches of snow on our second to last day.

May kicked off both summer and the real countdown for Spain. I finished my time at Phase 3 at the end of May and said goodbye to my friends I made at the company. To get through

the grieving of no longer work-ing full time, I decided to go to Italy with my mom, a few of her friends and Anna. We partic-ipated in a “Bike and Barge”, where you sleep on a boat and

ride bikes from town to town. We started in Venice and made it all the way to Verona. My

favorite stop was Man-tua, where the town was filled with cobble stone and narrow streets!

By the time June rolled around, I was thinking it was proba-bly time to pack to go abroad but decided I could put it off a little bit longer for our annual trip to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. This was my fourth year go-ing to the festival and we had a group of 30! It was a great week-end with Niles, Andrew, Emily and plenty of friends old and new. We saw great artists like Phish, The Avett Brothers, Kasey Musgraves, Joe Russo and more. We also enjoyed building and hammocking in a metal dome (picture in-cluded, see page 13).

After Bonnaroo, I headed to New Bern for a “quieter” weekend to help my mom with Grandma Camp. Each year, my mom hosts Reese, Ellena, Colleen, William and Everett at her house for a week of exploring New Bern and enjoying time with Grandma Lynne. I have had to miss it the past two years so I was excited to make it down for some Aunt Blair time. I still can’t get over how fast all five of them have grown up and how each of them have developed their own, spunky personality!

In July, the time to pack had really start-ed to weigh on my mind but I brushed it off and went to Athens, Georgia to visit my friend Markie after the 4th of July. Athens was beauti-ful and a town I had not thought to visit before, but will be going back to.

Once I got back to Charlotte, I decided it was time tackle my Charlotte bucket list before leaving. This included (attempt-ing) to float the river in Rock Hill, attend-ing the summer Dead and Co concert with friends, many days exploring the great breweries, and spend-ing lots of time with my cat, Walcott.

August came much too quickly and my time in the US was dwindling. I still had a few more things to do before packing though. The first week of August I went to Charleston, SC with Tyler and his family. We spent half the week eating seafood, laying on the beach and playing tennis. It was great to spend time with his parents and brother before I left! After four days in Charleston, we drove back to Char-lotte, did laundry and repacked for MillerFest.

Two days later Tyler, Markie, and I drove up to Rensselaerville, NY for the 9th annual MillerFest. This year’s theme was Summer Camp and included arts and crafts, a talent show, plenty of music, a great Ageless Grace® session (shout out to Aunt Karen), and lots of games. We had a great turn out and Markie enjoyed her very first MillerFest experience. (So much so that she said she is coming every year, even if I can’t make it!)

After MillerFest, Tyler and Markie flew back to NC but I stayed to spend time in Rens-selaerville and help get ready for Rebecca and

Blair in Paris at the Arc de Triumphe

Tyler and Blair in Madrid

Emily, Blair, Niles, Andrew in Dino Costumes at Bonnaroo



Max’s wedding which was the fol-lowing weekend. After MillerFest, I had a relaxing few days in the Catskills with Grandma and then headed down to New Hartford to get ready for the celebration. Em-

ily was the officiant (and best friend of the bride) and Niles and Andrew were part of the cocktail hour band, so the Miller’s house was bustling with guests, food and wedding decor. The wedding day was amazing! Emily did great as the officiant and gave a beautiful, tear jerking speech. The boys also did great in the band and we all had fun dancing the night away.

Finally, it was time to head back to NC and actually pack. I drove back to Charlotte and spent a few days gathering my things and seeing friends. Tyler threw me a going away party for my fi-nal night in Charlotte. The next day I said an emotional goodbye to Walcott and headed to New Bern to spend the last few days relaxing with my mom by the water. It was hard to leave, but I knew that I would be back one day and the next adventure was about to begin.

On August 26th I arrived in Madrid to be-gin my year as a Cultural Language Assistant. I didn’t start teaching until October 1, so the first month was filled with orientations, train-

Blair continued from page 5 ing, apartment searching, and get-ting accustomed to Spanish life.

My friend from Appalachian State, Erin, also decided to do the program so we found an apart-ment together near our school. I am living in Chamberi, which is in the central part of the city. So far, I love it! It was easy to adjust to the Spaniards “no pasa nada” life style, especially since lunch breaks include an hour for eating and an hour for siesta (napping/relaxing). The only thing that has been a bit hard to adjust to is the dinner schedule. In Madrid, and most of Spain, din-ner typically starts around 9 pm and some peo-ple don’t even eat until closer to 11 pm!

Since we did not start teaching until October, we decid-ed to use our free time to explore our new country. We did two trips in Septem-ber, one to Valencia and one to Mallorca. Mallorca is by far one of the most beautiful places I have ever been! It is part of the Balearic Islands and

filled with mountains and crystal blue waters. We stayed in a small area called Soller where there was a mountain view right out our hos-tel window. We took a ferry to a few different beaches and spent one of the days on a char-ter boat, where we had the chance to snorkel and paddle board. Unfortunately, not all of me made it back to Madrid. While paddle board-ing, I lost my balance and hit my front tooth on

the ore, result-ing in half of my tooth sinking to the bottom of the Mediterra-nean. Luckily, dental care is cheap in Madrid so I was able to get it fixed when I got home, but spent the rest of my time in Mal-lorca looking a bit like a pirate.

I started school October 1 and have really started to get into a routine. I am working in a primary school with mostly fifth and sixth graders, and some fourth graders. My role is to be an extra set of hands for the bilingual classes and help the teachers with English exams and lessons. My students are great and really fun-ny! Erin, my roommate, is also at my school and is working with second, third and fourth graders. We have been meeting a lot of people who are Language Assistants at other schools, as well as getting to know the teach-ers at our school. I started taking Spanish lessons once a week and my Spanish is defi-nitely improving.

In mid-Octo-ber, Tyler came to visit! It was his first time in Europe and he really enjoyed see-ing the different culture. We celebrated my birthday and our three year anniversary in Granada, Spain strolling through the historic

Blair and Erin in Paris

Charlotte (L), Callie (M), Blair in Chicago

streets and drinking lots of Tinto de Verano (similar to sangria.) It was fun to play tour guide in my new city and get to show him a culture that I am starting to feel a part of.

Tyler left November 1 and the same day Erin and I were off on our first out of Spain trip to Paris. It was my first time in Paris and I completely understand the hype around it! It is a beautiful city and even though it was a bit cold and we had some rain, I felt like I could walk around for days and never see everything.

Some highlights were the Eiffel Tower (shocker), an area called Montmarte, and the Flume concert we went to while we were there. It is already on my list to go back one day!

My mom comes to visit in the end of No-vember and Uncle Stuart, Aunt Sue, Niles, Andrew, Emily, and Cameron are coming over for New Years. I will be in Spain until July of next year teaching and traveling, so if you are ever in the area reach out. Until then, I hope everyone has a great holiday season! Salut!!

-Blair Davenport

Emily and Blair in R'ville

Solana and Blair in Denver

Tyler and Walcott


laerville until the fall. By having Debra and other caregivers help take care of Mom, it allowed Mom to stay in Rensselaerville lon-ger and fewer trips to New York for me and my sisters. Karen was able to also spend most of the summer and fall with Mom as well….Thank you, Karen!

During the summer, we had Emma home from Florence, and Erin home from Atlanta for a few months before she moved to Denver, CO for graduate school. With both girls home, and since Grand-ma Pat had a new beach house; we decided to revive one of our family traditions of vacationing at the beach for July 4th. (Note: For loy-al followers of the Haseley Herald, you may remember we used to take the golf cart parade at the beach every fourth of July very serious-ly.) Since we had no “real” golf cart to use, we decided to build a self-powered one, (meaning foot power like Fred Flintstone). Needing a theme that could somehow be tied to July 4th, or at least have a beach (or water) theme, we

decided to build a fish tank with a Finding Nemo theme. The fish tank was complete with four plexiglas sides, 100 gallon wa-ter tank, pressurized water hos-es and five crazy people (Allan, Kelly, Emma, Erin and James) who walked inside with our swim goggles on and pushed the large “fish tank” while

shooting water and throwing candy and trying not to get drenched from others shooting and throwing water on us. (They call it a golf cart parade, but it really turns into a large, friendly water fight.) Emma, with some help from the rest of us, did an awesome job of painting all the plexiglas with scenes and characters from Finding Nemo. It was great to revive an old tradition that we had done for many years.

Next year, we really need to have something with a real motor…we were exhausted.

After 23 years of hav-ing the same Sport Court Volleyball Flooring at our Sports and Volley-ball Center, we decided it was time for some new flooring. In our search to find the best type of floor, we stumbled across lots of people playing pick-

leball. Upon further research, we discovered pickleball to be the fastest growing sport in the country right now…so after installing the new floor in June, Kelly and I immediately became official pickleball fanatics and play 2-3 times a week. Pickleball is a combination of Ping Pong, Badminton and Paddleball. (Google it for information.)

Kelly, in a weak moment (she says), agreed to be the Interclub Tennis Commissioner for Charlotte this year. She has had her hands full coordinating and playing tennis and dealing with lots of “drama” as the commissioner. When she is not playing tennis or pickleball, she can be found volunteering at the hospital

Découverte Nemo

2019 was a year of moves, travels and re-newing old traditions.

The year started off with Emma studying abroad in Florence, Italy for her spring semes-ter of her junior year at UNC and Erin entering her second year of working in the real world in Atlanta, GA. With Emma soon to be a se-nior, and Erin planning to move to Denver, CO later in the summer, we thought we would try and take at least one more big family va-cation together. So, with Emma already out of the country in Florence, we decided to pick Erin up in Atlanta and meet Emma in Paris for spring break. Emma did a great job of planning a week long adventure for us to the west coast of France to visit Brittany, Versailles, Castles, Normandy, etc.

As I have done for most of the past 18 years, I drove Mom from NC to Rensselaerville over Mother’s Day weekend. This year we had a spe-cial passenger, Debra, to travel with us to stay and help take care of Mom while she was in Rensse-

Allan, Kelly, Emma and Erin in Versailles

or caring for Pat (her mom), Chelsea (our cat), Cosmo (our dog), or listening to Allan ramble on about the Sports Connection or next year’s golf cart parade ideas.

In addition to Allan’s trip to Rensselaerville over Mother's Day weekend, he also visited R'ville a few more times over the summer to help take care of his mom and was able to go to the Saratoga horse races one day which he had not done in a number of years. His friend, Tommy Tunstal, happened to be in the area on business so he joined him at the races and stayed in R'ville for a few days to visit with Mom and see all the traditional R'ville sights.

A few trips to our lake house, UNC and Panther football games, our annual golf tour-nament with the family and friends in New Bern and binge watching Netflix and Prime shows, rounded out the rest of our year.

Until next year…Just Keep Swimming!

Love,The Haseleys

(aka: Nemo, Dory, Marlin and

Darla)

Allan, Cosmo and Kelly

Nemo cart, painted by Emma, designed by Allan

Nemo crew


Well it’s already been an-other year and time to reflect on our fortunate lives. When we look at the rest of human-ity and all the suffering in the world it really makes us pause and be thankful for where we are and all that we have. Thankfully our year has been a happy one.

Christmas and New Year’s holidays were enjoyed with all four of the kids home. Niles’ friend Zach, from Oz (Austra-lia) also joined us for the holi-days. It was nice to spend time talking, doing puzzles, playing games, visit-ing, relaxing and spending quality time. We also were able to fit in a little skiing too.

In January, Cameron moved to Japan to teach English. He lives outside of Tokyo. In January and February, we had a house guest, Kate Hall, for two months. She was a physi-

cal therapy student doing a rotation in Utica. We cur-rently have anoth-er student staying with us for three months, Joey, from Buffalo.

We spent many winter weekends skiing the Adiron-dacks, Vermont and Quebec moun-tains. Love the snow!

In February we spent a great week in Aspen/Snow-mass on a ski club trip with cousin Sarah and Ed Tibbetts. Niles joined us for part of the trip before he left for Germany.

In April we made the an-nual pilgrimage to North Car-olina to soak up the sun and visit family and friends in New Bern and in Raleigh - we are enjoying Lynne’s new house on the river and spending time with Mom who was living with her. We also were able to cele-brate Emily’s birthday. Stuart

also visited his brother in Maine and helped him get his lobster traps ready.

May and June found us in Brooklyn and New Jersey for a weekend with Andrew and Catherine. Stuart went to the Paris airshow and was able to do some oc-caional fishing and sailing. Sue finished her year in pre-k and was busy packing up the classroom as the program where she had been for three years closed. She enjoys play-ing golf and tennis and tried pickleball during the summer.

July and August were hectic with guests during Boilermaker weekend. Stuart repre-sented the family in the 15K race and Sue,

Lynne and Emily graduated to the 5K where they got a head start in the beer at the finish line.

August brought the 9th annual MillerFest in Rensselaerville. We hosted family and friends which included our former exchange student, Tiia, her boyfriend and her family from Fin-land. We enjoyed having Stuart’s sister Bet-sy and brother-in-law from Idaho and their daughter, Amy, from Colorado visit.

We also hosted friends and wedding party guests for Max Gordon and Rebecca Billings' beautiful and very fun wedding event. This was the first of four weddings this year.

Sue returned to pre-k in the fall, juggling teaching in two different districts and having to drive quite a distance. Maybe retirement is in the future. Stay tuned.

October and November were sprinkled with more trips to NC for Lynne's golf event in

memory of Scott - 10th annual - her team came in second. Sue brought three friends with her to play in the tournament!

November we went to a wedding for Sarah Miller. It was a picture perfect location in the NC moun-tains and we had

a mini family reunion on Stuart’s side. And now Thanksgiving.

Somewhere in between were other visi-tors and visits to Rensselaerville, the Oneida Lake camp and many fishing, sailing, dining and music adventures with friends and family. Loved them all!

Happy holidays to all - near and far.-Sue and Stuart Miller

Where Have All The Millers Gone?

Stuart and Sue Miller

Stu and Sue at Ski Mass

Craven Cancer Classic second place winners

Sue, Kara and Andrew in Brooklyn



My entry for the 2019 Hase-ley Herald will be shorter than normal because I had only a few new exciting ad-ventures. I con-tinued to visit the grandchildren ei-ther in Raleigh or at the lake house on Lake Gaston. Of course, the grandchildren are

always fun to be around!I made my annual trips to North Myrtle

Beach during the big shag dancing weekends. They are fun and it is always nice to continue to see familiar faces while meeting new ones!

I played a lot of golf with my ECU school buddies and my son Mike. My annual golfing year always ends with the New Bern Craven Cancer Classic Tournament and I’m happy to report our team, captained by Allan with team-mates Kelly and Mike, finished second in the first flight! Thanks Allan for putting this awe-some team together!

I have really gotten into ping pong this year and I play for three hours two days a week. Ping pong can get pretty ex-citing and is good exer-cise for me!

I did make three va-cation trips out of North Carolina this year. I joined an old ECU friend

on a trip to Mississippi to watch the ECU baseball team lose to Mississippi St. and de-feat Mississippi. The trip was a lot of fun even though baseball in February gets a little chilly, like 36 degrees one day!

In July, I made the trip to Rensselaerville to visit Janet and was happy to see her still, with a little help, safely getting around. After an enjoyable few days with a lot of walking, I headed to Utica to enjoy the Boil-ermaker road race weekend with Stu-art and Sue Miller. No, I didn’t run, but the Boiler-maker is always a lot of fun meeting new people and enjoying a week-end of parties! I would have to say, though, that one of the highlights for me during the Utica trip was sailing on Oneida Lake! Pretty exciting!

Of course the most enjoyable trip of the year for me was joining Blair, Shelly, Audrey, Beckett and Blair’s mom, Cathy, on the trip to

Disney World. Walking six miles every day for six days and watching the chil-dren have so much fun riding all of the rides made for a lot of exercise and a fun week! I was so happy they asked me to go. A lot of good memories there!

Wishing everyone a happy and safe new year!

-Ed Rhem

Ed Keeps Bouncing Around

Ed Rhem with grandchilren Auudrey and Beckett Keeter

Ed and Janet on porch in R'ville

Iffy Health Or No Iffy Health, Curse The Doomsaying Doctors And Full Speed Ahead!

11/17/2018 (My Fair Lady), 11/20/2018 (The Fosburys’ visit), and 11/22/2018 (Lynne’s first Thanksgiving Day at her beautiful new house) – These three wonderful days were three times better than any three weeks of living and working in New Jersey and New York City for nearly eight years in the 1970s.

12/01/2018 – I decided to quit the HO scale model train hobby, which I had been diligently pursuing for more than eight years. After the previous 15+ months of problems, setbacks, frustra-tion and bad impacts on my health, the hobby simply wasn’t fun anymore. I have carefully stored away all model-train-hobby items for future apportionment to Haseley Clan mem-bers or nonprofit organizations.

01/01/2019 to today and into the future – using a 45-year-old barbell set greatly helped by a new weight bench and a leather back sup-port belt, I have been doing light weight lifting almost every day.

01/01/2019 to today and into the future – whenever the weather permits, I go fishing. (In a June random drawing, I also won a top-of-the-line fly fishing rod! Of course, despite all the excellent fly fishing equipment I already had, I just had to spoil myself with early birth-day presents of a matching fly reel, complete with matching fly line and leader.)

01/01/2019 to today and into the future – I am continuing my woodworking, especially after completely redoing the basement with emphasis on my woodshop. (I didn’t win any

woodworking-related items before, on, or after my birth-day. Of course, despite all the excellent woodworking items I already had, I just had to spoil myself with some early and some belated birth-day presents of wood, an an-vil, woodworking hand tools, measuring items, and a book on joinery.)

01/01/2019 to today and into the future – I am re-

ally having a lot more fun reading, listening to music (rock n’ roll, folk, classical), going to movies, watching TV, and good dining at restaurants.

04/01/2019 to today and into the future – I have been riding my bicycle. I rarely fall off. But, I am always confused by the 24 different combinations of gears.

06/01/2019 to today and into the future – I’ve been spoiling myself like a (big) kid in a candy shop. (I didn’t win anything else before, on, or after my birthday. Of course, despite all the excellent—and not so excellent—things I have accumulated over several decades, I just had to spoil myself with some early and some belated birthday presents of books, DVDs, the aforementioned weight bench, and the leather back support belt also mentioned above.)

09/30/2019 – After being blessed with the Haseley Family and their friends for three months short of 20 years, I concluded that,

Granddaugter Audrey and Ed

Health

Jeffrey Dulberg


Iffy Health continued from page 12 Cultures, Celebrations and ChangesI returned

from Germany for an extend-ed holiday in balmy upstate NY in Decem-ber with laser lasik eyesight and a pounding headache. The month became a whirlwind of activity with the family and my Aussie friend, Zac, visiting for

the holidays. He enjoyed the American hospi-tality very much and got to see the variety that NY and NH has to offer. Over Niagara, and through Woods Valley (skiing) to Andrew’s apartment we rode, celebrating the year end in a Phishy way in NYC. The kids gathered round with holiday cheers and musical guests, Blair and Tyler made it a sibling sensation.

After that it was off to NC to visit Emily for a month and do some work. The headache hadn’t gone away and what I thought was just run of the mill depression, crushing existential anxiety, seasonal hibernation, lacrosse sore-ness, and old age, fatigue and forgetfullness started to signal lingering Lyme lameness. Af-ter shooting up to a specialist in Albany for analysis and antibiotics, I was back in Aachen, Germany, just in time for Carnival (think Hal-loween combined with St. Patrick's Day) but unfortunately not well enough to enjoy it.

I continued coaching the men’s and wom-en’s lacrosse teams in Aachen and teaching English online. We had a successful season

although we fell short of my aim of national champions. I appreciated a different mentality about sports and it opened my eyes to a differ-ent type of competition. One for the sake of competition, fun, sport and self development, and not just the trophy at the end of the season. My players were so amazing. It was hard to say goodbye, but I’m sure I will see them again.

Winter wound on as my wellness wobbled and my German progress froze. I escaped the cold here and there, to slightly warmer des-tinations around Europe. There was a sunny Prague lacrosse tournament with the Moon Bears and the warmest atmosphere where I witnessed another friend winning the AHM tournament (my friends from Israel won last year but fell in the finals this year). Again, the fireworks off the cold war era club house fif-ty feet away filled the sky and my eyes with awe. I melted my heart in Mallorca, Croatia, and Portugal but the sea breeze felt frosty.

Just after the German winter skipped to summer, it was my time to depart. Back across the Atlan-tic to Bonnaroo I bounded with a bastion of festival friends and fami-ly featuring Blair, Emily, and An-drew. A group of 25 of us camped together and built a hammock hav-en dome for sun-rise sights and sleepless nights. Susquabi started things off hot, but

Griz was unreal and easily my favorite. Three sets of Phish including a pit party made for some wild musical experiences that capped the weekend with an electric guitar standing straight in the air like Simb, producing some of the strangest noises I have ever heard. The times were good and the people were even better!

After that I died for a week in Nashville before skipping to LA for a few days to vis-it Big E and then on to Bangkok for Jason Schwartz’s engagement ceremony. Cam joined me and a few others there and we tem-pled and touristed until we flew out to a small town for the festivities. The food was deli-cious and the massages were much needed.

On to Tokyo for two weeks with Cam! My first impression of the reserved, respectful Japanese culture was underwhelming. I found the quiet streets of the city a bit eery as I wan-dered from shrine to shrine through smoggy skies and oddly hornless intersections. Unrea-sonably, I expected more flashing lights and in your face technology and anime. But then I be-

gan to appreciate the mashup of modernity and tradition. On the weekends, the weary faces liv-ened up and I saw more smiles and socializing. After a trip to a festive firework show with beautiful komonos on display, a silly night running from Godzil-la, galavanting around the pubs of Golden Gai, and enjoying the colorful lights and sunrise, I be-gan to understand why Cameron likes it so much. I ended up re-ally appreciating it’s unique cul-ture based in respect, formality,

Bonaroo deckaroo croo continued on next page

Cameron and Niles in Shinjuku, Tokyo

while I am not married to Karen Haseley, I am married to the Haseley Family, and I am the black sheep of the Haseley Clan.

10/01/2018 – to today and into the future – despite all the past and ongoing naysaying feedback from medical professionals, I con-tinue to try to enjoy life, while seeking out reconstructive procedures to relieve my inces-sant pain issues. As I said in my title, “IFFY HEALTH OR NO IFFY HEALTH, CURSE THE DOOMSAYING DOCTORS AND FULL SPEED AHEAD!”

Love and Friendship,Jeffrey,

Trying Hard to be The Big Kid Again (Still Not Quite There Yet)


dedication, and tradition. The tranquility and calm surrounding the major metropolitan ar-eas offered a combination of big city and icon-ic quaint culture that I hope to return to soon!

Stateside again for MillerFest 9 saw a new stage addition behind the barn and graphics genereated by Blair. What a wonderful turn-out with family and friends coming from near and far! The Hokipas from Finland enjoyed it thoroughly and a few Bowhans from the Idaho

Niles playing at Max and Rebecky's wedding

Stage building - Nico, Andrew, Pat and Niles

Cultures continued from page 7 visit with family that we don’t see so often!This has been a fantastic year but not ev-

erything is sunshine and rainbows of course. I wanted to share some of the hard times in here too. I’ve been bouncing around NY, NC, and NJ as I try to understand the proper treat-ment for chronic Lyme Disease. I am very thankful to have such a supporting family. It has been a back and forth battle for the last

year, but I am very lucky to have caught it early and be in rela-tively great condition. Howev-er I should have treated it more aggressively at first with longer antibiotics than were prescribed and been diligent in monitoring my symptoms afterward. I didn’t do everything that I should have done right from the start. The mental symptoms and uncertain-ty of whether I’m improving or

getting worse has been the hardest part. De-personalization, brain fog, headaches, anxiety, and mental changes have caused me to feel like a different person at times. I know that

area flew in for their first. As usual it was a lot of work and everyone was instrumental in their help, we couldn’t have done it without such generosity. The talent show was a com-ical addition that left a lot of people scratch-ing their heads and laughing their butts off.

Wedding season kicked off and we wit-nessed Emily marry her two best friends, Max and Rebecca (to each other) at the first Gor-don wedding. Hank and the Mal-larads (Andrew, Pat Alcott, Nico Cortese, and myself) had their first gig and provided some cocktail music. And the dance floor was un-matched. Next, I was able to reunite with some Carolina boys in Vermont the following weekend. And later I attended the second Gordon wed-ding where I caught up with some childhood friends. Finally, cousin Sarah Miller got married in Bre-vard, SC and we had a mini Miller reunion. The ceremony was short and sweet with an un-real mountaintop view over a forested valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was great to

Niles in the Catskills

it was my own recklessness about ticks that caused me to get it, so if you are out in the woods or in areas with ticks, please be vigi-lant! This disease is spreading at a staggering rate (300,000 cases per year!) and it has truly devastating effects if left untreated. Fun fact, it’s probably related to a more habitable cli-mate for ticks (if not an escaped bioweapon from Plum Island for you conspiracy theorists). Please be aware and be safe! Well wishes!

-Niles Miller

RecreationAndrew's 2019 Highlights

• All the siblings visit-ed NYC for New Year’s Eve and we went to a Phish show at Madison Square Garden.• Cousin Keith came to visit in February and we met up with Cather-ine and Tommy for din-ner in Manhattan.Andrew & Kara in Rville

• For Valentines Day, Kara and I went ice skating in Central Park and had a nice dinner at a nearby restaurant.

• I spent a lot of time skiing this past winter. I fractured my thumb during a backcountry hike at Stowe Mountain, but made a quick recovery in time for some retro spring skiing.

• We were guests at seven weddings this summer, including one in Char-

lotte, where we also visited Blair.• Stu and Sue came down to Williams-

burg (Brooklyn neighborhood) for a boozy brunch.

• Went to Bonaroo with the Croo.• Enjoyed another MillerFest with fam-

ily and friends!• Played the cocktail hour at Rebecca

and Max’s wedding.• Traveled down to Greensboro for a

concert with Emi-ly and friends.

• Went to New Or-leans for the last wedding of the season and joined in a Second Line March through the streets.

-Andrew MillerGrandma, Karen and Andrew via FB Portal


Mike's Year of Facebook Posts - Again!January 5, Bre,

Mike and Lucius Jordan at Clouds Brewing

March 16 - ACC Champs!!!

April 13 - A day of festivals wears ya out!

May 25 - Audrey's birthday fun!

June 14 - Father's Day golf!

July 20 - Afternoon beers and Uno with Bre and Lucius.

August 30 - A little golf.

September 16

October 18 - Golfing with the family for a great cause! Craven Cancer Classic.

November 20 - Happy Thanksgiving!

February 14, We had to say bye to our best friend of 15 years last night. Comet was so special and did so many amaizing things for us, I can't even put gratitude into words. It's exttremely difficult starting life without him, missing him so much, but I know he's in great hands! He was really the best and his impact on our lives will stay with us for-ever! Love that big guy!


A: Audrey (5.5) B: Beckett (4)

C: Cinderella’s Castle (where we ate break-fast with the Princesses)

D: DISNEY with Papa (Ed Rhem) and Grand-ma (Cathy Keeter)

E: Emergency Room – our first trip (refer to “T” for details)

F: Four – the number of bones Audrey frac-tured in her foot (thanks trampoline park)

G: Georgia Aquarium (and the kids' first air-plaine/metro rides)

H: Heaven – where Kally now lives with Mom, Grand-pa, and Uncle Scott (she was 14)

I: Interests – Beckett (cars, trucks, Pow-er Rangers, Transformers, sports), Au-drey (Ariel, drawing/col-oring/painting, dance, music)

J: Jeeps – Pow-er Wheels –

Audrey and Beckett (Beckett is quite the daredevil)

K: Keeter (duh)L: Lake Gaston M: Mommy – the word most frequently heard

in our houseN: Nineteen – Roughly the number of indi-

vidual rides ridden at DisneyO: Occupations – Director of Sourcing and

Procurement (Blair), Senior Event Spe-cialist (Shelly)

P: Pirates – ECU football, of course!Q: Quiet – this word seems so familiar, yet, I

can’t seem to recall what it is.R: Rollercoasters – the kids LOVE themS: School – kindergarten (Audrey), Spanish

for Fun! four year old classroom (Beckett)T: Twelve – the number of stitches Audrey

got in her heel (freak boating accident)U: Unlimited – the amount of energy Beckett

hasV: Very blessedW: WakeMed Surgery

Center – where Beckett got his third (and hopeful-ly) final set of ear tubes

X: X-Rays (Audrey and Shelly)

Y: YouTube Kids = Lifesaver

Z: Zoo – our house on any given day (and we wouldn’t change a thing)

We have had a pretty exhausting and exciting year. We were fortunate

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continued on next pageFront: Audrey, Beckett

Back: Cathy, Shelly, Blair Keeter and Ed Rhem

to be able to take two amazing trips this year, and were so excited Dad and Cathy (Blair’s Mom) were able to join us on our un-believable Disney adventure. Audrey and Beckett are growing in knowl-edge, excitement and personality every day, and so far, continue to be best friends. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for our family and the kids – maybe a new puppy (if Shelly and the kids have their way!)

Until next year – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Love,The Keeters

(Shelly, Blair, Audrey and Beckett)

Beckett and Audrey KeeterBeckett and Audrey

My 2018 news used some of the 21 Ageless Grace® (AG) tools to describe my year. Once again, I’ll be using the tools I did NOT use last year. (Refer to the 2018 Haseley Herald if you’d like to learn more about the tools.)

Once again the year has flown by and even though I did not trav-

el as much this year, I still presented Ageless Grace® at a number of conferences and spe-cial events and taught trainings and re-certifi-cations. Just as a reminder, Ageless Grace® is a brain health fitness program almost anyone can do. Last year I introduced 10 of the 21 Ageless Grace® simple tools for lifelong com-fort and ease, this year I will use the other 11 tools to explain my year.

Tool #5 is Zoology for systemic movement. Deer, deer, everywhere! The newest thing I did this year was to plant a vegetable and herb gar-den in Rensselaerville. Since I have NEVER had a garden and never thought I had a green thumb, this was a big adventure for me. I had LOTS of advice and assistance! The big chal-lenge was keeping all of the deer out of the garden. And keeping me moving! After try-ing a number of things, I finally put up a deer fence, with Stuart’s help, around the garden. It did keep out the deer, but some other animals also found their way in. I’m not sure if it was rabbits, groundhogs (which had a home near

Karen leading Power Tools at AG retreat

Karen Grace - AKA Karen Ageless Grace®! (Part 2)


the porch), or something else, but after board-ing up the holes at the base of the deer fence, it seemed to keep all the animals out. It required a lot of monitoring

and of course I visited the garden almost every day!

Tool #6 is Try Chi for stability in the joints and ligaments. I continue to move as much as I can, despite my knee issues. I did teach a sparsely attended Ageless Grace® class in R’ville that motivated me to at least get my own AG practice in. Stability also came with the cooking, shopping and scheduling Mom’s caregivers while in R’ville. I’m enjoying try-ing out new recipes and sharing them with Mom and Patty.

Tool #8 is Body Math to improve the abil-ity to respond, react and recover. I learned to Respond to the weather, react to the wildlife, and recover from the wildlife antics in my gar-den. I also got a camera to help me identify the night time visitors. I’ll be using it more often next summer! Thanks Steven Smith for the camera recommendation!

Tool #10 is Rockin’ Rockettes for improv-ing the hip flexors. Lynne and I took Mom to two Buhrmaster Barn dances in Albany, as well as CDH (in WV), Dance Flurry (in Sara-toga Springs, NY) and Gypsy Meltdown (near Charlotte, NC). Dancing was loads of fun and seeing all the dancers and musicians so-cializing with Mom always brings me smiles. This was the first time I had been to Gypsy

Meltdown. I stayed with Allan for a week af-terwards, taking care of Chelsea before I trav-elled to Hendersonville, NC to lead an Ageless Grace® recertification and training. Lots of moving the hip flexors for those whole two weeks!

Tool #12 is Express Yourself for benefitting the mobility, strength and agility in the entire arm complex. And I’m back in the garden again! Putting up the deer fence and realiz-ing the spaghetti squash loves to creep along and grab onto anything! Therefore setting up a trellis in the garden for the spaghetti squash to climb on was a great idea. Good thing we had some old trellises in the barn. And of course har-vesting all the luscious vegeta-bles worked my arm complex as well. In August, my friend and fellow AG trainer, Marghi, and I presented at the Florida Recreation and Parks Associ-ation conference. Prior to our presentation we did Express Yourself on Facebook to pro-mote our presentation. Check it out here if you’re interested: https://www.facebook.com/margaret.bunckmcclearn/videos/2323410054444711/.

Tool #14 is Saving Face for release of ten-sion in the face, neck and head. I usually like to think of laughing while I’m “saving face”, but this summer we started watching Dark Shad-ows (how many of you remember that show?) on Amazon and we worked on the scary faces a lot. Mom got hooked on the show and has been binge watching it ever since!

Tool #16 is B-R-E-A-T-H-E Out Loud for improving oxygenation throughout the cells.

Did someone say Dark Shadows? taking deep breaths as Barnabas (vampire) attempts to bite characters we don’t want him to bite! Lots of laughter, with friends and singing Happy Birthday to and with Mom, not to mention blowing out candles!

Tool #17 is Grab Bag for flexibility in the hands, wrists and fingers. With all the cook-ing, gardening, harvesting and assisting Mom with her exercises, we did work our hands and

fingers on a continuous basis. Also, this year was the first time Mom and Jeffrey helped me make kuchen (German cof-fee cake), rolling out the dough and sprinkling on the yummy fillings on the dough.

Tool #18 is Shake It Up, Baby for release of the myo-fascial tissue. Have you ever made manure tea? Well it’s good food for the garden and it needs “shaking up” every day or so. Also, Marghi’s visit to R'ville helped me to “shake up” my routine as we started planning our other presen-tations we’d like to present

around the states. If you have any interest in learning about neuroplasticity and exercising your brain, feel free to reach out!

Tool #19 is Team Fit for muscle coordina-tion. I love being in R’ville as the walking is terrific, though I didn’t see as many deer on my walks this year. I did see a newly emerged monarch butterfly, though, which was uplift-ing. Lynne, Sue, Annie and I made a great team hosting the church luncheon in July at our house. Sue and I also teamed up to host the first ever home church service. We had about

Karen planting arugula

Annie, Lynne and Karen at falls

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Karen and Marghi McClearn in R'ville yard

15 attend, and all enjoyed the pot luck after the service.

Tool #20 is Get Down, Get Up for the muscle of the heart. My heart got a great workout with all the visitors, friends and family who visited R’ville, all expressing their love and apprecia-tion for Mom. I also hope that all those new and re-certified

Ageless Grace® Educators I trained in Ocean City, MD, Hendersonville, NC and Hyatts-ville, MD all continue to feel the love and ben-efit from Ageless Grace®. Not to mention the presentations - Ocean City, MD (2 presenta-tions), Branson, MO, Flat Rock, NC, Orlan-do, FL, and being interviewed for the Midlife Crisis series.

Have a wonderful holiday season, and al-ways remember, we LOVE visits, portal calls, telephone calls and emails. Stay in touch,

-Karen Haseley

Marghi McClearn and Karen Haseley, Ageless Grace® presenters and trainers

https://www.facebook.com/margaret.bunckmcclearn/videos/2323410054444711/




2019 was a blessed year for us. It has gone by so fast and hard to re-member everything that we did. Even though it has been happening for a few years, we have no-ticed that, now more than ever, we are not all to-gether as much as before. It is rare for the four of us to be together at the same place at the same time. If we are all together, the kids do not seem to want to “hang out” with us. This depresses John, but he understands that it is life. Particularly this sum-mer, William and Ellena had opportunities to go to a number of places so the family was only together four weeks out of the 12 weeks in the summer break.

Ellena turned 13 on March 29th of this year and has evolved into a beautiful, smart, incred-ible young lady. We are told that she brings joy to everyone that she comes in contact with. She makes people laugh and is a mag-net for kids. We think that her future will have something to do with working with kids. She is also going through all of the things that 13 year olds go through. She has mostly focused on academics this year and has not played any sports. She has enjoyed being able to hang around friends more. In February, she went on a field trip to Camp Leopold near Santee, SC. It is a nature camp and she had a great time learning about nature in the outdoors. During

the summer, she did one of her favorite things which is Grandma Lynne Camp. So-phie took Ellena and Jenni-fer to New York for her 13th

birthday this year and they had a great time. She also went to church camp in up-state South Carolina.

William turned 11 on November 1 of this year. We are told that he has grown into quite an intelligent, re-spectful kid. Like Ellena, he has enjoyed hanging out with friends. William went to basketball camp at Clem-son. We tried UNC, but they had an extremely long wait-ing list. He had a great time and got to know the basket-ball players pretty well. He

thoroughly enjoyed Grandma Lynne camp. In August, John and William went to NASA

and SpaceX while Ellena and Jennifer were in New York. William had a great time. He wants to work on the project that takes us to Mars and is fascinated by that. We also got to see a rocket launch. William had a great time and got to a see a tribute to Ronald McNair who was from here and died

on the Challenger Space Shuttle Mission in 1986 just after liftoff.

William is on his school’s math team and placed best on his team for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade during the state com-petitions. He will be play-ing basketball this year.

John and Jennifer are doing great. Jennifer con-tinues to work at a small independent pharmacy in Sumter, SC. She loves working with the customers and helping them in a personal manner. She enjoys going to work and is thankful for everything. It is a much different environment from a chain and exactly what she has always wanted to do professionally.

John is thoroughly enjoying his job. He works for Thompson Construction Group and Industri-al Services right down the street from Jennifer in Sumter, SC. They have a number of active projects in progress. Fortunate-ly, they were selected by SpaceX to build several things in NASA including a launch pad for Mars related rocket projects as well as a “hanger” where a lot of the actual rockets will be built and assem-

Avocations, Vocations And Vacations

Jennifer, John, Ellena and William Phillips

William

bled. He has been blessed to befriend some very interesting people on that project.

As we said, it has been a blessed and fast year. As a family, we took a quick trip to the beach during spring break, hung out in Charleston a couple of weekends, went to a few ballgames including the Clemson/UNC football game. John’s mom came with us to Chapel Hill and was able to spend some time with her old college roommate. She was very happy to get to do that. In August we went to the beach with the Davenports and the kids got to spend time together just like at Grandma Lynne camp. It was a blast.

That is a quick summary of our year. We look forward to seeing and hearing from all of you during the holidays.

-Jennifer, John, Ellena and William PhillipsEllena and cousin Everett

William and Ellena with Ramsey


curious. She loves figuring things out and can be super convincing. We now have a fish — Kim swore we never would — after Colleen laid out a pretty airtight case for one.

Reese is driving now which is still unbe-lievable to me. She is into some pretty typical teenage things these days and living out the Martina McBride song Teen-age Daughters, she keeps us on our toes for sure. Reese is a very good singer, she sings at our church and at a local coffee shop, a teenager hang-out. She went on a mission trip to Be-lize with a group from our church...without us! I told her she was much braver than I was at her age. It was a great experience for her and cool for us to see her step out and challenge herself.

Everett is all boy. He loves hang-ing out with his friends riding bikes and jumping on the trampoline. He likes playing his video games too, a lot like his dad did once upon a time. He recent-ly started his second season of basketball. He is really enjoying it so far and has gone from being the smallest out there to one of the tallest

seemingly overnight. He loves all things STEM and building. Anytime we get a large box he is excited like Christmas. Our favorite thing lately is playing Battleship, he loves beating me at anything.

We also took the plunge this year and

2019 was a year filled with lots of fun and adventure. Kim and I have taken control of our health over the last couple of years. We have both completed over 300 HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) classes at Fit Body Bootcamp here in Clayton, January will be two years of going consistently. We also participate in two running clinics a year with our good friend Jenn Hamilton. She has been a great coach and encourager as we have worked on making this our new norm. We need it to try to keep up with a sophomore in high school (Reese, 16) and a middle schooler (Colleen, 12 in seventh grade) and then the little man (Everett, 8 in second grade). They have all grown so much it’s hard to believe we have a driver in the house now!

Colleen is still super cre-ative; she amazes me all the time with what she can draw freehand. It truly is a gift and fun to watch. She is ten-der-hearted and kind to every-one, as well as very clever and

The Livin’ Part Of Lifebought a pontoon boat and named it The Livin’ Part of Life. It holds ten people and we have really enjoyed it this summer. It’s a lot of fun going out on it and super comfortable. We spend a lot of time floating on a 16x8 foot lilly pad that will hold about ten people. It’s a great

way to spend an afternoon. It will also hold it’s own pulling a tube, Reese and Everett ab-solutely love it and I have fun whipping them around.

Our spring break trip was our first ever cruise. We went out of Charleston to the Ba-hamas on a five-day. We had great weather and our ports were a lot of fun too. We stopped at Princess Cay and took out glass-bottom kay-aks and swam in the crystal clear water. We also stopped in Nassau and went to Atlan-tis for a day filled with water

slides and an amazing aquarium.I’ve been at Pinpoint now for just over two

years. Building a software company has been the most challenging and also rewarding thing I’ve done in my career. I now run all internal operations which has allowed me to have a lot of influence on how we have built the com-pany. I really love the team we have built and look forward to a successful 2020.

One final note on October 14th Sue Daven-port (Maw Maw), Dad’s mom, passed away here in Clayton. She was 92 years old and had suffered from dementia for many years. I have been her guardian and am glad she is now rest-ing peacefully.

Colleen, Everett, Kim, Reese (sitting) and Scottie Davenport (standing)

Livin' Part of Life pontoon boat

We hope every-one has a great new year in 2020. See you all soon!

-Scottie, Kim, Reese, Colleen and Everett Davenport

Kim Davenport

Reese

Everett

Colleen


4. In May, Andrea got to play Pebble Beach (right before the US Open tournament) and Spy Glass golf courses. Even for a non-golfer, these courses and the views are incredible. Tania flew out to take a sisters' Thelma and Lou-ise trip driving the CA coast for the weekend. It was Andrea's first time doing this and the landscape is simply breathtaking.

5. In May, Andrea was a finalist for the CFO of the Year award for the At-lanta Business Chronicle and in June, she was a finalist for the E&Y Entre-preneur of the Year award.

6. In August, Steve and Andrea attended the US Open (tennis) in NYC. This was a bucket list item for Andrea and she got to see her fa-vorites play – Federer, Serena, Djokovic, and

Coco.7. In September, we finally took

possession on the new house we built on Lake Blue Ridge, GA. It has plenty of room for visitors and we have already hosted both sides of the family for weekend visits. We added a dock and more than enough toys –

tritoon, jet skis, kayaks, etc. We try to go up there every weekend we can.

8. The boys are now in second (Cole) and fourth (Dylan) grades. For the first time, they are in the same school which makes logistics a lot easier for us. Both are active in soccer and love watching Atlanta United (and NCFC and Courage games when we can). Cole enjoys art, basketball and anything that makes him move. Dylan has built robots in class, learned 3D printing this year, and went on his first

Happy Holidays, everyone. 2019 brought us a few firsts.

1. We adopted a rescue dog in January that we named Winston. During his first few weeks with us, he proceeded to chew up furniture, shoes and tennis balls as he was learning how to be an indoor dog. He has gotten much better and is very well behaved once he got the knack of being a pet.

2. Over spring break, we ven-tured to Mexico and had the whole family swim with dolphins for the first time. We enjoyed catamaran rides, pool time and Dylan’s favorite – burritos.

3. In May, Gran and Steve’s parents joined us on Mother’s Day weekend to watch Dylan achieve his black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He was nine years old when he passed the test and is currently working on his second degree. Cole received his red belt in Tae Kwon Do recent-ly and has two more belts before he can test for his black belt (likely 18 months). We have very well trained, strong boys!

...And Winston Makes Five!

Andrea, Dylan, Steve and Cole Roe

Winston

sleepover school trip. Both excel in math and have a love of science and inventing.

9. As is tradition in Steve’s family, the boys travel to NYC for the Macy’s Thanksgivings Parade when they are nine years old. Cole got to go this year, which is a year earlier than tra-dition, since we received spec-tacular front-row tickets to the parade. In the category of firsts – Cole’s first time in NYC; all of our first time in the grand-stand for the parade; Dylan and Andrea got on TV during the

parade; first time ice skating in central park; and the first time for the boys at a Broadway play (The Lion King). It was a busy Thanksgiv-ing weekend!

We hope you come visit us in Atlanta or at the lake. Happy Hol-idays, everyone!

Andrea, Steve, Dylan (10), Cole (8) and Winston (2) Roe

Dylan and Cole Roe

Andrea Malik Roe Entrepreneur Finalist

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The Merry Maliks: 800 Years Ago And Today

During 12th century England, medieval his-torians wrote about a fierce outlaw who lived in Sherwood Forest with his Band of Merry Men, frequently clashing with the evil Sher-iff of Nottingham. This outlaw-hero Rob-in-Hood helped spread the revolutionary concept that the future would not belong to the very powerful – nay – but to the everyday peo-ple. Both Steve and Kat Malik have ancestral origins to this area. The Maliks are proud to be descended from a heritage of brave rebels who fought injustice and oppression. We are pleased to present Robin Hood and his Mer-ry Maliks, a day in the life of our ancestors from 800 years ago! If you have a spare sev-en minutes, watch the medieval Maliks create “their new game of soccer” and practice their archery and swordsmanship at https://vimeo.com/katmalik/robin. Their noble mission is to protect the common folk against the evil Sher-iff of Nottingham and Bishop of Hereford.

When the current-day Maliks aren’t making Halloween movies, they enjoy playing with their new member of the family – an Aus-tralian Labradoodle puppy named Coby! Coby had his acting debut as “Little John” in our Robin Hood movie. In closing, we Maliks look forward to a 2020 filled with adven-ture and noble causes for us all.

-Steve, Kat, Jordan, Skylar, Samantha and Macey Malik

Arts and EntertainmentFrom The Eyes Of The Kitties

Hi People! May-be you know us and maybe you don’t. Ei-ther way, you know us now. We are Sabi and Suki the newest mem-bers of the Dan fam-ily. We thought it was necessary to record the actions of our people and share noteworthy ones with you. In case you don’t know us we are the Tortie shell Sia-mese and a Lynx Point

Siamese that came from a rescue shelter about a year ago.

To start it off our sisters K and K (Kristin and Kaitlin) go out of the house five of the sev-en days of the week. We are not sure what they do but we know they seem to enjoy where ever it is they are. They call it high-school, tenth grade in fact. They also come home, and blow into weird things that make loud noises. We think they call it “MEOW”sic?! Regardless we enjoy piano, flute, horn and oboe but we are not fond of the little thing called piccolo – seems rather high pitched to us. Our twin sisters also play in the school marching band and an orchestra on Sunday. Their football team finished first in the region so the season seemed to march on forever. They both are in the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra. K and K are also in a few clubs at school. One of their clubs involves our favorite thing in the world – YARN – they are knitting squares for

a quilt to be donated to the Linus Project. They also play a game on a black and white board of strategy. We love the piece that looks like a horse and we push the pieces off the board...OOPS. We also love that they build these cool things with lego and we like to bite the tops off the buildings. OOPS, I guess we shouldn’t do that either.

Our at home mom – Ellen – still sews for various organizations. She must have altered a million marching band uniforms – some in, some out, some longer, some shorter. Well we guess it wasn’t a million but it seemed that way. She also repairs tuxedos for the concert band. Now she is fixing costumes for the Walk to Bethlehem at their church. The girls all vol-unteered at the Samaritans Purse Processing Center and had a great deal of fun working on shoe-boxes that go to various countries for children who don’t normally get any presents.

We had our first road trip to Michigan around the 4th of July. Everyone helped clean up Grandpa’s house; we just thought it was fun poking into every-thing. Fireworks were exciting and we were not scared at all.

Our dad still plays volleyball and refs a couple of nights a week. He volunteers a lot at the high school as a band stand parent for football games. Good

Kaitlin playing piccolo

Kristin playing malophone

https://vimeo.com/katmalik/robin

https://vimeo.com/katmalik/robin


Kitties continued from page 11thing he has a good set of ear plugs – those students get really loud.

Kaitlin and Kristin did some music camps this summer – one was local and one was in Pennsylvania at a small college – it was such a quiet week when they were gone.

Both girls are in the St. Mary’s Scholars at school for the students with a high GPA. As a week of extended studies they went to various museums such as the Newseum in D.C., the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Ford’s theater, a dinner theater, Spy Museum, an es-cape room. Teachers from various departments led discussions about the visit. They loved the Newseum so much they talked Mom and Dad into going back again.

We think that sums up the year as we see it. We love hugs and we want you to hug your family members as time with family is precious.

Love from all the Dans, Harry, Ellen, Kaitlin, Kristin, Sabi and Suki.

Suke and Sabi

Happy Holidays

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