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A few thoughts on unfinished books and ancient wine vats

  • April 20, 2023

What does it take to get a book into the world? A little help from St. Joseph the Worker, plus inspiration from an Old World wine vat on a steep Calabrian hillside. That's a good start.

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“The Key To My Grandfather’s House”

  • April 7, 2020

What unites us is that we are all immigrants of one kind or another. Here is one family's tale out of the hills of Calabria to the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio and beyond.

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Rounding up a father’s life in bits and pieces

  • October 3, 2018

Fathers can be mysterious guys, especially if they were members of the Greatest Generation who didn't talk about things like their ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and whose go-to form of anger was volcanic utterance. But in the bits and pieces of a father's life, I find the man he was.

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