Matzoh and Meatballs

I'm proud to announce that Mischling , a collection of poems about my Italian-Jewish family history and whatever the heck it has ...

On this last night of Hanukkah, enjoy the two following posts, the audio recording of which may be found at WordPlaySound.com ...with many t...

My Christmas memories are an amalgam of simultaneous dread, distortion and melodramatic nostalgia that could have all occurred on the s...

When I was nine, my mother instructed my father to return our Christmas tree to the local Christmas tree vendor because it was too small...

My happy Thanksgiving post...... Thanksgiving was never exciting.  It was never hostile.  It was usually quiet.  All except for the dr...

President Obama's critics seem to have made an unlikely comparison between Mr. Obama, himself, and the notorious villain we all love to ...

                                                                       Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org With the passing of James Gandolfini,...