Frank Vaccariello

Making it up as I go along

Welcome to my world

Social media won’t last forever. They seem to be imploding.
I thought I would put my life on my own site.
Look for posts about our travels and my photography below.

The photo is my sibs and me in front of the magnolia tree that was just a few branches when we moved into the house in 1964. This photo was taken for my mom's last Mother's Day in 2015.

Family/History

See what we have learned about the Vaccariello and Cardina family history.

Fun with Karen

A sunset, an outdoor concert, the latest recipe or the trip we are on. 

My Radio Days

Hear airchecks, commercials and interviews from my 16 years in radio.

Weekly Music Show

My dad’s collection of more than 500 Vinyl Lps and 100 78 RPMs.

My Old Corkboard

Clippings from my past that ended up on office corkboards.

Frank's Short Stories

Sometime nobody is here to tell them to. Now I’ll start telling them to you.

My Latest Posts

It could be the latest post about our adventures, the most recent experience with the camera, a new T-shirt or shot glass I bought (usually specific to my travels and themed collections), or something I had pinned to one of my office cork boards years ago.

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Fossils, dinosaur skeletons, earth sciences, and live animals The Cleveland Museum of Natural History recently opened up its new $150 million addition, so Karen and I wanted to check it out. What a wonderful job they did with the new space. It's filled with historic...

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2024 Frost at Botanical Garden

2024 Frost at Botanical Garden

We made our annual pilgramage to the special show at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens called Frost in mid-December. The crew that arranges the flowers and lights and other exhibits really put in a lot of hard work. It's the same organization that puts together the...

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2024 Hocking Hills Hiking Adventure

2024 Hocking Hills Hiking Adventure

South Bass Island had not been kind to us the first two times we tried to camp at the state park there. In fact, the weather downright tried to kill us both times. So we had some doubt when we decided to give it a third chance and booked a cliff-side campsite once...

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My Family

Images from my parents childhood, through dating then marriage and on to their 50th Wedding Anniversary. Set to the music of those years in a half hour video.
(YouTube had a time limit to videos when I first uploaded them. They will play in a Playlist)

Is your towel handy?

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – Douglas Adams

“…again and again and again…at least 42 times.” – Frank Vaccariello