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      <title><![CDATA[Going Forward...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[New Beginnings! 2009, Happy to see it.
  
It's a great time to take a look at things - and as I look - I am amazed and delighted with my life and blessings. I'm planning a few new things for 2009 and I look forward to sharing that information with you very soon!

I'm going to drink more champagne this year. I'm going to say YES to the things that make life better and NO to the things that take me away from peace. I'm spending more time with FRIENDS. AND - I'm avoiding all NEUROTICS! I heard the greatest definition from Marianne Williamson, &quot;Neurotics blame and criticize and create dramas to star in.&quot;  !!!!  Know some? Avoid them in 2009!   <img src="http://www.whud.com/bmachine/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />

I am giving myself more TIME this year by not opening all those forwarded &quot;spiritual e-mails.&quot;  If you want to pray for me, pray for me. If you want me to pray for you, call me and ask - I'd be happy too.  If you want to send a true, heartfelt message - please do - but include a bit of yourself in there too. Prayer is truly powerful...but there is no Angel of the Computer waiting to grant wishes if you &quot;send this to 8 people in 10 minutes.&quot; If you think something magical will happen after you forward some animated image, that's great - but how could you wish BAD luck on someone for NOT sending your e-mail forward? That's some crazy kind of &quot;spirituality&quot;. 

You want real, life changing results?  Step away from the &quot;get lucky quick&quot; schemes and sit quietly - every day - patiently - connecting to a true source. Be nice to people, truly wish them well, whether you like them or not.  Volunteer!!! GIVE of your time and talents.   By the way...I don't think the Dali Lama actually wrote that e-mail about the cow and the pig...

Look at this glorious Hudson Valley. We LIVE here. We are blessed with so much beauty and good fortune.  Go Forward and Enjoy It.


xox
Kacey




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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cold Spring by Candlelight]]></title>
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As part of Cold Spring by Candlelight, Kacey read holiday stories by the fire at Pig Hill Inn.
WHUD News Reporter Sue Guzman and her daughter Natasha enjoyed the day too!
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Blue Note Christmas.....]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The holiday lights on our house are blue this year...to match the Mr. and Mrs. Yankee Snowpeople on the wreath my husband Mike bought me.  Isn't he the greatest? <img src="http://www.whud.com/bmachine/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" />

He ALSO bought me a guitar. I memorized the strings, E A D G B E , like this: Evan Ate Dynamite. Good Bye Evan. (Evan Schwartz is my guitar teacher. ) Then I tried to tune it myself and broke a D string. Doing a bit better now...I know 3 chords...A, D and G...I think.

My sister Maria and I were up to our ears in angel wings and shepherd costumes. The 6th annual Children's Christmas show featured more than 21 students from all over the Hendrick Hudson School District and two from Mahpac.  This talented group presented the play The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the Verplanck Fire House on Sunday, December 21. ADORABLE!

Dream Cakes Bakery on Route 202 in Yorktown, a recent WHUD Office of the Week,  is my new favorite place. Go in and meet Lynn and Danny and try www.dreamcakesbakery.net - Check out the  &quot;decorating ideas&quot; file.  Mike's getting a capuchino chocolate cake for his Christmas Eve Birthday! My nephew Nicky got a red Fiesta Cake for his birthday...so yummy!

And did you hear about Rosalita? Phoebe Rose McBride, an apricot Pug joined our family.  I found her through Barbara, one of the pet angels associated with the Thronwood Animal Hospital.  If you're looking for some unconditional love, you can find pets through the ASPCA site on the WHUD home page, or get in touch with Joanne at www.putnamhumane.org 

If you're thinking about giving a little love this season...call Make a Wish of the Hudson Valley 914 478 WISH. The men at St. Christopher's Inn at Graymoor would love a new shirt for the holidays, too 845 - 424-3671


This picture,  taken by my friend Giom Grech, is of our beautiful dock on the bottom of Main Street in Cold Spring.

There's no place like home....for the holidays.
Merry Christmas.

xox
Kc








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      <title><![CDATA[American Thanksgiving]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We had a really great time last weekend in the City of Brotherly Love - Philadelphia! Our jouney began on a double decker tour bus around town. Of course we sawBesty Ross' house,  the Liberty Bell and Constituion Center,  where we bumped into Chazz Palmentieri! He was performing Bronx Tale there.

We sat in William Penn's pew at Christ Church. Mike had the Snapper Soup at Bookbinder's, and we both had Cheesteaks at Jim's on South. Ryan, the waiter at Bookbinder's, said Pat's and Geno's Cheesteaks were for &quot;tourists&quot; and by this time we we're feeling the we owned the place. And WHAT a place; the art, the parks! You can get completly drunk on the archetecture. 

And then, there's the HISTORY. If every city has a name, Philly's is BIRTH. You can almost feel how our Founding Fathers created the blueprint for our New World.  The place I loved the most was the small room where 52 men met every day for four months to carve out our Constituion.  I stared at the centuries old image of the sun etched into George Washington's chair and heard the words of Ben Franklin when the Constitution was born, &quot;I have often ... in the course of the session ... looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting.  But now at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun.&quot;  And then I cried big fat tears of gratitute. Thank you, thank you, thank you I kept repeating to the spirits in that room. Thank you for your determination to find the way. Thank you for not giving up on the future, thank you for believing in the most improbable of nations. Thank you for my liberty.  Our fore father's earned the right to be proud for creating our nation. My grandparents came to escape poverty.  My citizenship is a gift. I have only deep and eternal gratitude for the gift of being born in a free nation and I offer a prayer of blessing for all those who do their best to keep it that way. I see clearly that my full participation  ..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keeping Warm...]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Seasons are changing and, as a new homewner I don't know what to do with all the leaves on the lawn! Married life is fun. I even made a meatloaf the other night - It seemed like a wifely thing to do.

Right now my thoughts are filled with angel wings and shepherd suits as the 6th annual Children's Christmas Celebration in Verplanck has begun rehearsals. It's become a sweet tradition my sister and I pour our energy into each year. Local kids put on a free holiday show the Sunday before Christmas...and for the third year my Mike will don a Santa suit for sure.

Hoping things are well with you and yours - it's great to get your emails and keep in touch so please write!  Kacey@whud.com

One of the coolest things I was part of recently was the Hudson Valley Hospital Center's Women's Symposium. The keynote speaker was Joan Anderson and she is just amazing. Find more about her and her books at <a href="http://www.joanandersononline.com">www.joanandersononline.com</a>

A Wonderful Life is opening soon at the Westchester Broadway Theatre - I'm looking forward to seeing that. <a href="http://www.broadwaytheatre.com">www.broadwaytheatre.com</a>

And Thursday nights at The Bird and Bottle Inn are special this month with the Warren's Tavern menu!  <a href="http://www.birdandbottleinn.com">www.birdandbottleinn.com</a> Come sit by the fire!

xox
KC]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Congratulations Kacey and Mike Grean!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[And so,  I married Mike Grean on July 8th in Stephen and Doreen Cole's yard in Verplanck.  The moment I dreamed of most was just as I wanted it to be; walking arm in arm in arm with my father's nephews, VS and Stephen Cole. At that moment,  I knew just who I was and where I was going. Moments later, under the grapvine, standing with Mike and the minister, Patrick Perkins, I did have a slight, surreal freak out.  &quot;Ok&quot;, I thought, looking out over the small group of close friends and family, &quot;What the heck is this? I'm getting married? ME? Hmmmm....There's not that many people her. If I just call them all tomorrow and tell them it was all a joke, they'd forget all about it.&quot;  Then, as I listened to the vows, I began to let myself feel how happy I was to be marrying this wonderful man, and I all but levitated with joy.  Truth is, I don't remember much after that.  Everyone raved about the food from Cole's Market, people stayed and laughed until well after dark. My face hurt from smiling...but I couldn't give you a clear account of the evening. I was just humming.

I know I ate a lot of cake. Loren at B&amp; L Deli made it and I smashed it up a bit when I took the corner at Broadway and it slid across my hatchback, but it was still goooood! The rental place forgot to bring the plates so the neighbors ran into their homes and brought out theirs. They looked perfect in all their mismatchedness. The next day we watched the Yankees win at The Stadium. We screamed when we saw &quot;Congratualtions Kacey and Mike Grean&quot; appear on the scoreboard. And we cried when we heard John Sterling announce our wedding on the radio...ya think it wouldn't  be such a big deal to hear my name on the radio - but it was.

The party continued a days weeks later at Bird and Bottle ....and those pictures are coming soon...
along with much more.....

xox
Mrs. G]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[...and get me to the church on time!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Friends - 

Mike Grean, my fiance, and I were walking down Main Street in Cold Spring the other day when Highland Baskets owner, Leonora, and her husband Tony shouted, &quot; When's the wedding?&quot; 
&quot;July 8th,&quot;  I called back, and we erputed into an impromtu sidewalk chorus of &quot;pull out the stopper, we'll have  a popper - get me to the church on time!&quot; 

Among the sweet memories I'm collecting at this time I must include the students at Our Montessori School in Yorktown where I teach theatre art workshops. In my youngest group, the 5 and 6 year-olds,  a girl declared, &quot; I heard on the RADIO that you are getting MARRIED.&quot;  I said, &quot;Yes, I am.  It's very exciting&quot;.  With that, a little boy raises his hand. &quot;Excuse me...Miss Kacey... if you have a wedding cake, and it's chocolate, could you save some for us?&quot; I can't even TYPE that story without filling up with  tears of joy.

It's been a roller coaster of feelings these past few months and through it all, there were only TWO things I was SURE of.  One is, that I am marrying a wonderful man. Micheal Grean Jr. grew up in Rye working in two of his family's businesses; construction and cooking.   If you remember the huge sign for the White Elephant piano bar,  it is now hanging over my fireplace.  Mike spent 15 years in California, most recently as a movie caterer for films like Walk the Line and Memoirs of a Geisha. A film job brought him back the beautiful East Coast where he was inspired to take of his apron, pick up a hammer and began Grean Contracting Inc.

I had signed up for a 3 month core training course with Loretta Reiley at Scivoletto
Chiropractic in Cortlandt.  At each visist Loretta would say, &quot;You should meet the man who is building my house.&quot;  Finally, I said, &quot;Give him my number!&quot; She did. We had a blind date on July 9, 2006 at Riverview in Cold Spring.  We are getting married on July 8, 2008.

The exchange of vows will be private, under the family grapevines on what would have been my father's bir ..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mo's Daughter]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Years ago, when people were beginning to recognize me from being on the radio, I was tickled... and a bit delusional.  Too brief a pause at a Peekskill stop sign found me being pulled over by a kind officer. As he took my license back to his patrol car, my big, fat ego thought he'd come right back once he realized he pulled over &quot;Kacey on the Radio&quot;.  I was half right. He returned with a stern warning and then said, &quot;Why didn't you tell me you were Mo's daughter?&quot;.

That officer did me two favors that day, not ticketing me was the lesser one. &quot;Mo&quot;, Antonio Romolo Morabito, my Dad, had many friends from his days working at Standard Brands in Peekskill, and later from bartending at Bertoline's and Jeremiah's.  Radio Schmadio! Around here I am - Mo's daughter -  the child of a simple man who served his country in WWII and came back to raise his family. Anything I have is a gift of grace or a product of hard work.  I am no greater or lesser than anyone else on Earth.  I'm Mo's daughter, and that's a good thing to remember.

Dad passsed away on February 15. Since that day I've struggled to know who I am without him.

My life was energized by the joy he gave me.
The gifts he gave were the constant reassurance that he was there for me and wanted me to be happy. Dad was interested in my world. He always asked me about my Mike, my friends and my job.  If I found something to complain about,  Dad would tell me to forget it. No big discussion, just enjoy what life had to offer. I came to rely on his simple wisdom.

As Dad grew older and was living in Florida, we made sure the distance did not come between us.  I'd call to ask about recipes I never intended to cook.  When he came to New York I'd ask him to make meatballs even though I gave up beef years ago. Every time I stepped foot in Yankee Stadium, or if  I just saw a game on TV - I called Dad. I'm not one to chase interviews, but I went out of my way to talk to Michael Kay and John Sterling, just so I could tell D ..]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[BACK to Life....]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[

Thanks to Debbie and Donna at Fitness Forum, Loretta Rielly and John Scivelletto at Scivelletto Family Chiropractic, the care of Dr. Magda Shoenfeld, along with Dr. McCoy and Dr. Gross,  and with advice and perscriptions form Drs. Ligenza, Rosner, Krosser and Peretz -  I didn't bring my cane to work today!

Working to gain strength and avoid surgery has kept me busy these past few weeks, actually, months! My fiance Mike deserves a prize for patience! Things finally seem to be looking better - so  I hope to see at a WHUD event soon!

Next up - all the wedding details!!!!
Thanks for checking in ...

xox
Kc]]></description>
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