July 25, 2025 What Would’ve Happened? This morning, around 8:30 AM, I was nearly killed. A car – clearly piloted by someone who thinks blind corners and double yellow lines…
April 4, 2025 Chapter 10: Just Don’t Be a Lesbian, Okay? Bishop Kearney High School. All girls. All plaid skirts. All Catholic guilt, stacked high like the communion wafers they forced down our throats. It…
April 4, 2025 My Uncle Was a Real Mob Boss. Now, I Work for a Legal One. When your uncle is Funzi —real name Frank Tieri, head of the Genovese crime family—you grow up with a very particular education. Not from…
October 8, 2024 Recipe of the Month: Baked Tofu – Italian Style Tofu and Italian in the same sentence? Yes, and in the same recipe. This recipe was originally a vegan “fried egg” substitute that has…
October 3, 2024 IMHO: Remembering Civility What happened to our country that held only promise and potential for my grandparents, aunts and uncles? Am I permitted to continue to write…
January 31, 2019 Recipe of the Month: Baked Broccoli Mom used the oreganata approach to many dishes but never broccoli. I apply the December 2018 entry for Oreganata Everything to broccoli as follows:…
January 31, 2019 Girls are Good. Boys are Bad. What were we thinking? When I was growing up, many Catholic grammar schools in Brooklyn had separate entrances for boys and girls. Classrooms were also segregated. This was…
December 31, 2018 Chapter 4: Ringing the Bell It’s New Year’s Eve and one thing invariably comes to mind…Uncle Louie ringing the bell at the stroke of midnight. Not a doorbell. Not…
December 30, 2018 Recipe of the Month: Tofu Scramble Yes, Tofu Scramble and here’s why… My mother was the best cook. Since every Italian kid feels the same way, including my mom about…