Suprise Me

Sammy was my first love (and my first heartbreak). I had just turned 14 and was in the ninth grade at a small coed school where I was not popular with boys. Sammy, the cousin of a classmate, went to a different (all boys) school. Our mutual infatuation was quick and intense. We were inseparable,… Read More

The Beatles break-up began in 1969, the year I graduated from high school. I wished it weren’t so, but it was inevitable that they would go their separate ways, just as it was inevitable that high school would end, and everything would change. Read More

My mother was the one who taught me that girls CAN do that. Read More

Reader Advisory.  Iron Butterfly’s“In-A-Gada-Da-Vida,” and Simon and Garfunkel are referenced in this piece. If an earworm ensues, counteract it by singing “Bingo” (you know, “there was a boy who had a little dog and Bingo was his name-o…”) Snow days During grade school snow days, Chicky Ross, Danny Corsi, Tommy DiPetro and I used to… Read More

Sports Fanatic This may not exactly be a Super Bowl story as we’re a baseball family,  but it’s as close as I can get! A few years ago our friend Jon called on a  Saturday morning.  It just happened to be the third day of the World Series. ”We haven’t seen you guys for awhile,… Read More

I have no control over the holidaze. The only thing I can control is how I respond to it. Read More

I was first introduced to dating dos and don'ts when I was eight years old and my two older sisters started dating. Read More

Vaccines arrive. Like Brylcreem: a little jab'll do ya. Read More

The house looked sort of lived-in, and we loved it, eclectic and thrown-together though it was. Read More

I just remember it was the girls crowding around my dad, and it was a very special time. Each week, he put aside his work and read us a chapter. Read More