Holidays

So yesterday was Easter, and like many, I ate too much of everything. I ate too much ham, kielbasa, potatoes, and mac and cheese. Then I went to bed and whooboy! Last night I [...more...]

Every Father’s Day (since I became an adult), my ritual with Dad was to see whatever Summer blockbuster movie was playing, and then we’d discuss it over a late lunch. [...more...]

A.J.’s alarm went off early so he could get ready for Christmas mass. I just rolled over and, for whatever reason, thought about baseball and my beloved Yankees. Then, I [...more...]

The holiday cards I made this year. I used to love writing out holiday cards. I used to design and make a lot of them by hand. It was pretty much the only thing I still liked [...more...]

Being part Irish and part Italian doesn’t bode well for someone who doesn’t identify as Catholic. I’ve been through the sacraments and all that jazz, and even, on [...more...]

You turn on the news and you see nothing but bad stuff going on either on the other side of the world, or even on the other side of town. It’s easy to fall into a [...more...]

(NOTE: This post was scheduled to go live yesterday, but, in light of the attacks in Paris and Lebanon, I chose to wait a day.) I’m not a huge fan of horror movies at all, [...more...]

I grew up in Teaneck, just over the GWB from NYC (George Washington Bridge and New York City for the uninitiated). I used to listen to Z100’s morning show before going to [...more...]