It’s so simple, just ask a four-year-old. The innocence of children, a common theme, is a misnomer. The innocence implies they had some capability to surrender it. They do not until we teach them how. What children are is honest,…

Please share on social media. There is a commercial running on various streaming services which causes me great distress. Without the benefit of any trigger warning—which now make eminent sense to me—I was traumatized and thrust back into one of…

As we age, we sometimes look at life through the rear-view mirror, longing for a past often whitewashed by nostalgia. As a result, some of us fall into a funk, thinking the best days are what we can only experience…

But I know a place where we can goThat’s still untouched by menWe’ll sit and watch the clouds roll byAnd the tall grass waves in the windYou can lay your head back on the groundAnd let your hair fall all…

Over the course of my life, I’ve held several jobs. My first one, at 15, was washing dishes at the Admiral Inn in Cumberland, Rhode Island. My aunt, Katherine Szpila, was the hostess. Almost all my cousins and a couple…

I tried to go to an Italian bakery today and could not figure out why it was so crowded. This reminded why… (Here’s a re-posting of a piece I wrote some time ago. It’s the time of the year…but with…

On this day after Christmas, I wish you all the best of the season and all the joys of life. Here is the entire Day After Christmas Story to carry you through until next year…Enjoy ********************************************************************************** In keeping with an…

As this, my 64th Christmas, approaches, the usual string of memories stir from within the synapses of my brain. With the first few notes of The Little Drummer Boy, or the words “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” from The…

This time of year—scorching humid days, once verdant green Spring grass turned brown and coarse, evening fireflies sparking the imagination—always makes me think of summer vacations long ago. Not those taken for a week or two, but the real summer…

(This is a bit of a long one, but it is an interesting topic and, hopefully, worth the read) The good ‘ole days may not have been as good as we’d like to believe, or were they better? An intriguing…