When I was twenty-two, I would come home at 3am or so after a night of clubbing, and as I opened the door to walk up the stairs of our three-decker home, the door of the first floor flat would open simultaneously. It was my grandmother. She looked half asleep and her questions were always […]
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As I recall the event, it happened when I was around 11 years old, and had been an altar boy at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church for almost 5 years. Because of my experience with serving mass, I typically got the primo assignments; The High Palm Sunday Mass at 11:30am qualified as one of […]
read moreTake Me Out To The Ballgame
Baseball season is upon us, and with the first pitch of Opening Day in cities all around the country, the magic of the first nine innings is only trumped by the childhood memories of games gone by. Baseball is not just a sport, it’s a generational unifier. It has forged so many relationships between fathers […]
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