Marilyn Paradiso

483 S Kihei Rd

Kihei

808 280-0559

paradisom001@hawaii.rr.com

Marilyn, Jack and and our daughter Stephanie

Hello everyone!

How can I summarize 50 years? After 20 years on Prince Edward Island (Canada), we moved to Maui to be near my parents, who retired here, and sister Elizabeth, who also lives here. I retired a year ago after teaching Spanish at Maui High. My husband Jack was a commercial fisherman on PEI, and taught scuba diving and was a boat captain for sport fishing boats here. He was originally from Manitoba, where his sister and her family run a riding stable, and where our daughter Stephanie spent every summer until she moved there a few years ago after working as an academic adviser at UH in Honolulu.  She now works at the University of Winnipeg as a student adviser, and her husband is a police officer there.  Since the maternity leaves there are for a year, they were able to visit us for a few months this past winter. Their son was born in June 2012, and they stayed with us from his birth until he was 3 months old.(We have a cottage on Falcon Lake- about 90 miles east of Winnipeg, and 3 miles from the ranch). This summer we went to Falcon for the summer, and I got back to Maui a month ago, so won't be returning to the mainland for the reunion. Jack will be leaving Manitoba before the end of the month.

I am enjoying having an opportunity to hike, swim (we are just across the street from the ocean), and study tai chi and related Taoist practices. I started with Yang style, but have been studying Wu style for about 8 years now.

Elizabeth and I manage to get together frequently. She is now a massage therapist, but spent 10 years living on and chartering a sailboat. Jack has been looking for a boat for us to live and travel on, at least part of the year, and has one in mind near Toronto, so I, a total landlubber, may have to learn to sail. Right now the idea is for him to take the boat, if he decides on it, to Florida before winter sets in. I would probably join him somewhere along the intracoastal waterway, with a stop in NC to see my sister Rosalie (Kathy) and Sandy Seaton.

The school I taught at desperately needs substitutes, so I will be on the list in about a week, and am rather looking forward to seeing students and teachers without the meetings or paper-work!

This seems rather long, but 50 years is a long time!

Aloha!