If you add my first cousins and siblings together, you get a total of nearly 40 people. Add in spouses, cousins’ kids, aunts and uncles and I think you can see how big my Italian-American family is. More than 90 percent are in...
Read MoreIn the Sunday Review section of The New York Times recently, a headline asked: Will Sanders Supporters Come Around? My response, out loud, to my apartment walls — Who gives a fuck? This is when I knew something in me had...
Read MoreThe other day, the first of the Republican National Convention, I started having a little snarkfest on Facebook. Sometimes I love snark. It’s smart, makes me laugh. It’s particularly gratifying when my creations bring out the...
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“Nan, it’s been really fun and the greatest year – for us, not our parents.” In her tiny script,...
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Through my bedroom window I saw a man throw a lit cigarette butt on the ground today. It was on...
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