Like many artists –music became my solace and my hiding place early in my life. I was nine or so, when the local symphony came to school and gave us a demonstration of the different instruments WE could choose to play. Well, being somewhat short and tad pudgy, painfully shy among my peers (not adults […]

My very favorite thing of all. When I was a kid the downtown stores (there was no mall or Wal-Mart in Oneonta then – imagine that if you will) were open until nine on Thursdays and during the last of the Christmas Holiday rush, they stayed open later, too, except for Sundays.   There were lights and neon […]

About Me: I grew up, perhaps, not too differently, than you in a small very close-knit city in upstate New York. Though I was born, went to grade school, stayed for college, and part of my young adulthood in Oneonta, my parents came to “Merica (as we call it) from southern Italy, which did make our family […]