Eric Paulen

@springsteen with @therealcindynorth @lindsaypaulen @samipaulen

As is typical in our family, due to work, we miss holidays together. So as I spend my day traveling back from Monte Carlo to home. @lindsaypaulen @samipaulen @therealcindynorth and @vivianpaulen will be spending the day together. Gifts have been arriving for weeks! So from the @carlsberg lounge in Copenhagen AirPort, I write this tribute. May you enjoy your day and know not how only how much I love you, but how much I respect you! Nearly 18 months ago, you found your way back to NYC for a new job! You did and continue to lead and mentor and teach and empower people to be better. You make everyone around you better, Lindsay and Samantha are following in your footsteps, and me too. I just listen, and learn from you each and every day. Over 36 years after you coming into my life, you are the sun of our family, and we all are lucky enough to revolve around you! Kiss my mom, the girls, and of course our baby @lolanorththeshowdog and know how I am with you all in your hearts, and mine! I love you very much, forever and always!!!

Happy Anniversary #30 to my #1 girl! As always, we are half a world apart-Literally! As Im off on a poker adventure while @therealcindynorth is busy as always! Our lives are complex and its never easy to figure it all out, but since we met in November of 1988, although we did meet on her porch of June of 88, it really is quite simple. Cindy, is always there for me. And I promise, yours truly has the better end of the bargain! We had our annual anniversary meal at @francosnj_ like we have since Anniversary#1! Thank you for 30 years of marriage, memories, and more! I love you very much!

Happy Valentine's Day to my wife @therealcindynorth . We have been married for nearly 30 years and your passion for life, your gleam in your eye, your love of our daughters @lindsaypaulen and @samipaulen and of course our baby Lola. You are the everything for all us, our go to, our #1 guy! All my love from halfway across the world, I wish you were here with me. We love you always and forever!

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For 46 plus years, my family lived here in Hillsdale, NJ. My mother and father bought it in the Summer of 1979, and we moved in on September 15th. We had bad times and good times, and struggles and pain, but somehow through it all, there was always love present. It was the last residence of my father, while my Mom moves on to an exciting new place not too far away. It was not just a house, nor just a home, it really was a part of our family. We lived here, we celebrated here, we cried here, we had holidays here, we watched games here, we fought here, we had the mundane here, we hoped here, we dreamt here, we grew up here, we died here, but most of all, we were a family here. On Friday, my Mom @vivianpaulen said goodbye, brother who is not on social media, has really been the driving force and doing all the heavy lifting as I have been on the road for the most part since October 6. @jennies6981 please show this to David, and let him know how much I love and appreciate him not for what he does, well maybe that, but for who he is. As I say goodbye to our home, there are some tears, some smiles, and a lot of memories of all kinds coursing through my head, my heart, and my soul. Goodbye Hillsdale, goodbye house, goodbye home, but we will always be thankful for how you kept us safe, warm, protected us, and were the best home for our family!

#happynationaldogday to our best friend, protector and soulmate. @lolanorththeshowdog you are the center of our universe and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We love you more than words.

My daughter @lindsaypaulen began her monthly blog list with this post about my Dad! It was very touching and a nice touchstone of him! My grandpa somewhat unexpectedly passed away while I was in the midst of writing this newsletter in early August. He was an avid reader of my Substack and probably my biggest supporter. I truly looked forward to seeing his name pop up in my inbox every month — he always sent kind words after reading my writing, some of which I’m sharing below. My grandpa wasn’t much of a texter or caller, so I’m especially grateful to have these notes from him to look back on and to comfort me during this time. Gramp, thanks for all the love and support. This one’s for you, and I hope that wherever you are, the Mets win every game.

From the time she was born 26 years ago, Lindsay was smiling and was adventurous. Our beautiful blue-eyed Brooklynite is everything we ever hope she would be and more! Love you a lot @lindsaypaulen and happiest of birthdays-thank you for brunching w me this morning!!!

Happy Birthday to my wife @therealcindynorth who is our everything from World Traveler to New York City to @axsometherapeutics executive and so many other roles that you play in so many people's lives. But this was anything but a normal week. Late Monday night, my father Lewis Paulen passed away. @lpaulen2741 Cindy got up and headed to comfort my mother. And without Cindy's support, I would have folded. For you see, Cindy is a gift, a national treasure, she is everything to everyone, and wherever she is, as Harry Bailey said in It's a Wonderful Life, with a little @ericpaulen poetic license-"To my wife, Cindy, the richest person in any place, any time, and any where that she is!" I thank you, I wish you the happiest birthday, and most importantly, I love you very much!

Last night, my father, Lewis Paulen, passed away. This morning, a 2.7 magnitude earthquake hit in the next town over from his town. Im sure he was angry about something, and he wanted us to know one last time. He was complex and complicated, but he loved Mel Brooks, rock and roll, Democrats, his family, and of course, the Mets. In this era of social media, this is the quickest and easiest way to send details of the funeral arrangements and shiva. Funeral is Thursday at 11:30 at the Chapel in Cedar Park Cemetery in 735 Forest Avenue in Paramus, NJ Shiva will be at the home of Lewis and Vivian Paulen-145 Dwight Ave in Hillsdale, NJ, after services and at the same address on Friday from 1-5. May the Mets go on a wild run like last year in honor of him.