Of my four grandparents, all who immigrated from Italy to the USA, three of them came as young children. They attended school in New York and fully assimilated to their new country. They only spoke English around their children, so my parents didn’t speak Italian. My paternal grandmother had a Brooklyn accent so thick, you […]

Christmas time brings many different memories for people – some good and some bad. Personally, I like to focus on the good memories: Going to midnight Mass and walking home at 1:30 in the morning. remembering the excitement of my children on Christmas morning when they were young, being together with family, and Christmas cookies. […]

In my previous life, I published non-fiction articles (mainly Catholic faith related) and humor. I’m now venturing into a new field that combines my love of genealogy and my all too vivid imagination. My first draft is complete and currently undergoing the intense scrutiny of my beta readers. I am hoping the birth of this […]