Whether we like it or not the day will come when we suddenly realize just how fast time flies. And it happens just when you least expect it. Quite innocently, I might add. You could be doing the most mundane of things, like lazily watching a Sunday NFL game, when you happen to glance at your kids busily building a town made of Lego. Or you could be watering the roses in your backyard and hear the laughter of youth as you permit the red petals float to the ground. And do broken crayons littered on the kitchen table make you reminisce of your younger days?

"I don't remember growing older ... when did they?"

For better or for worse I know I'll only live once and I would love to spend every minute of it frolicking in every park in New Jersey with my family. If I were not financially challenged my family would also be visiting Mickey yearly and Big Ben monthly. We'd have a nicer house in a nicer neighborhood in a nicer state. But given the limited material wealth in my possession I will have to be a little bit more resourceful in bringing joy to my wife and four kids.

Which brings me to this web page. Here I have decided to chronicle the life and times of every single member of my family. The good and bad times, the significant and trivial. It will contain a grown-up Gian working in New York as an artist --- a comic book maker, he calls it. You'll see Trixie who may eventually open her own ballet school after retiring from a successful professional career in Broadway. It'll have Nico supervising his fifth building construction in three years for a multinational corporation. And how about Paolo lacing his sneakers as a rookie for the Chicago Bulls. Well, whatever they become, and whatever dreams they pursue, Karen and I will be clapping in the background.

On a personal note, Chronicles will serve as a momento for me in my senior years on how six individuals have moved on and what they have made of themselves because of, and inspite of, each other.

And to Karen, Gian, Trixie, Nico and Paolo, I hope it does bring them joy ... and a smile on their face.

February 13, 1999

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