{"id":279653,"date":"2025-10-05T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279653\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:11:19","slug":"the-roller-coaster-of-life-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/279653\/","title":{"rendered":"The roller coaster of life \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"life\"\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Mike Keane (COO), Megan Schroen (SVP Transformation Officer), Kristine Olsen (CMO), Daniel C. Shaughnessy (Head of Long Island Wealth Management), Jason Lipiec (Regional President, M&T Bank Long Island) and Jonah Aloni\n<\/p>\n

What a difference a year makes. What a difference a day makes.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

In a stunning video announcement, with his mom\u2019s picture by his side, New York City Mayor Eric Adams<\/b> withdrew from the mayoral race. In one day, the world of politics went upside down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve known Eric for over a decade, back when he was a state senator, then the Brooklyn Borough President for eight years and then the mayor of the greatest city on earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My heart goes out to him because I know he accomplished great things and overcame great hurdles \u2014 and he loves this city with all his heart and he did make his mother proud. He leaves the city in a better place than when he took office. I wish him well!<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, my grandson Jonah <\/b>and I made our way to the suites on the 18th hole at the Ryder Cup<\/b> tournament on what seemed like an endless journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"USA fashion was seen everywhere!
\n\"\"Jonah got up close to Scottie Scheffler
\n\"\"Even with drizzly skies, the crowd followed the players to each hole.
\n\"\"Jon Rahm, one of Jonah\u2019s heroes<\/p>\n

Holding Jonah\u2019s hand, I marveled at how comfortable I was walking, since a year ago, I was in a wheelchair. I\u2019m so grateful that my knee replacement did the trick!<\/p>\n

\"\"Jonah and I at the Ryder Cup<\/p>\n

We found the building and suite of our hosts, M&T Bank<\/b> and Wilmington Trust<\/b>, which had been built on the Bethpage Black Golf Course<\/b> in Farmingdale<\/b> for the five-day Ryder Cup tournament. It brought to Long Island the best golfers in the United States to compete against the best golfers from Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Bob and Lauren Roberts<\/p>\n

Jonah is passionate about golf, and he got to see, only yards away, two of his heroes: Scottie\u00a0 Scheffler<\/b> and Jon Rahm<\/b>. He was in ecstasy!<\/p>\n

He had earned this opportunity because he achieved great academic success in his junior high school year, joining the \u201cover-94.9 average club.\u201d
\n\"\"We proudly attended Jonah\u2019s recognition for his grades at St. Anthony High School. Hooray Jonah!\n<\/p>\n

Go Jonah go!\u00a0<\/p>\n

To cap off the weekend, I was delighted to celebrate my friend and accountant Lou Grassi\u2019s <\/b>birthday at his new home! It doesn\u2019t get better than this!<\/p>\n

\"\"Celebrating Louis Grassi\u2019s birthday and new home!
\n\"\"Kara Ross and Lou Grassi
\n\"\"Frank and Nancy Sorrentino
\n\"\"Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blaskey and David Gallo (right)
\n\"\"The Parziales
\n\"\"Lou Grassi and his daughter Ali<\/p>\n

What a roller coaster life is and what a week it was!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

See more photos on QNS.com<\/a>, DansPapers.com<\/a> and LongIslandPress.com<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Keane (COO), Megan Schroen (SVP Transformation Officer), Kristine Olsen (CMO), Daniel C. Shaughnessy (Head of Long Island…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5288,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,8656,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,98999],"class_list":{"0":"post-279653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mayor-eric-adams","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-ryder-cup","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-victorias-secrets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115321968377057670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}