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Yumiko Graduated!!! She is a Certified Physician Assistant!!!
She did it! She worked so hard for so long from the day she entered medical school. Yumiko has poured her heart into her studies. And on Friday, July 29 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, that young woman walked up on stage and received her Masters Degree. Cannot tell you how proud…
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Yumiko in Her White Coat
Yumiko has been a student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for about one year. She is a hard working woman and making it through. Today she asked me if I might come and take a picture of her in her white coat. I was thrilled and took a thousand photos of her…
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Yumiko and Jessi Get Married!!!
Well, it is hard to believe, but my baby girl Yumiko got married to the love of her life, Jessica Scricciolo in a Zoom Wedding in our back yard at 2:00 in the afternoon on May 14. It was a beautiful day. There were at least 200 people on the Zoom and oh it…
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Mr. and Mrs. Redbelly Have a Secret
O.K. you have to promise not to tell. I was walking in the woods this morning and heard the little cry of the red bellied woodpecker. I walked to where she was calling, looked up, and there she was inside the nook of a tree. After a little while she put her head back…
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Yumiko in the Cherry Tree
We planted this cherry tree some 20 years ago in anticipation of Yumiko coming home to us. Here she is 20 years later (at the ripe old age of 22). A more beautiful young woman both inside and out would be hard to find.
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We are here in Costa Rica
Yumiko and I arrived two days ago and what an adventure it has been already!! Yumiko was carrying two cameras and two lenses in her back pack as we were heading off to photograph the baby turtles emerging from the sand and running out to the sea. As she was walking she mentioned to…
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Working on a Little Photo Book for Natalie and Pete Stepanoff
Natalie and Pete about to Tie the Knot O.K., We are going to do this!! Flower Girl and Icon Girl The Priests The newest little Stepanoff The Brothers Yeah!!! More Yeah!!! Mom and Grandmother of the Groom Natalie looking for the Groom Still Looking And Still Looking Here he comes. Yes that is the…
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Yumiko Officially Graduates from NYU this Very Morning!!!
Yumiko shakes hands with Gene Andrew Jarrett, Dean of NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences. She graduated officially today cum laude. The Golden Tassel With Aunt Barbara Reid A Kiss for Mom So Proud!!
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Today is the Day!!
In about five hours Yumiko and I will go by taxi to the Shinganji Temple in Tokyo where we will have a private ceremony to bury the second half of Ken’s ashes. In attendance will be Ken’s sister Takae San and her immediate family and Ken’s sister-in-law Sumiko Kono and her immediate family. I…