My husband Allen and I have been friends with Alex and Sharie for many years. We’ve gone on numerous outings together (looking for turtles!), as well as just hanging out, having dinner and enjoying each other’s company. Alex also built our turtle habitat,...

When my 50-year-old kitchen cabinets were falling off their hinges and my linoleum floor was rotted down to the floorboards, not to mention a stove that caught on fire on a regular basis, I knew it was time to renovate my kitchen. I interviewed about a do...

When I lived in New York I owned a sailboat, bought from my friend Kenny who sold it to me when he moved to Florida. Alex and I had a number of sailing adventures on that boat. Kenny had docked the boat at various marinas along Long Island’s north shore...

Growing up in the Bronx we had many animals in and around the house. Al got to watch as I tried to get tropical fish to spawn and we even had an old refrigerator in the back yard that our neighbor had converted into a 60 gallon tank where Al watched the ...

Alex was a Scrabble addict and the best player I've ever competed with. Competed is not quite the right word, because Alex beat me every time we played, and it was never even close. I was no competition for Alex, and never thought I was bad at the game until...