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I wake up In the dark Dipping biscuits In my coffee I warm-up In the dark Thinking about My mother’s love I regret In the dark Avoiding...

I travel repeatedly to my birthplace: Salice, Messina, in the Peloritan Hills of Sicily. In reality, I have visited Salice three times...

My mom, my younger brother, Pippo, and I always waited for my father to come home on his re-welded bicycle to have dinner. He usually...

My love for wine began even before I knew what was happening around me. My mother, Signora Grazia (as she was respectfully called by her...

‘If I Were in Charge of the World’ by Judith Viorst is a poem that I often share with my students. It makes me laugh. It makes me...

Merge endlessly the women I love Unite lyrical Sappho With Greek waves That slip into poetry Blend oratorical Cleopatra With African...

There is a typical Italian saying, “Si sa’ dove si nasce, e non si sa’ dove si muore,” One knows where one is born, but one doesn’t know...

A name is more than just a name. When my daughter was born, I named her Graziella. Later on, when my mother became a US citizen, she...

Once a friend, always a friend. Days, months, years pass, but true friendship picks up life where it was left off. Daunting time is...

Tutto Cambia, Tutto Resta... Una Pietra E' Sempre Una Pietra All things appear to change. Yet, I am doing what I did. Only differently....

It is often said that we learn everything in kindergarten. Maybe not everything. I learned an everlasting lesson in fifth grade. That...

For a long time, Sicilians used the carrettu sicilianu to carry goods of all sorts. One day, under unusual circumstances, it was adopted...

In our visceral impetus to give meaning to our temporal existence, more often than none, we distort our perception of reality to add...

In my mind, a recurrent image of death is that of a five-year-old girl dressed in all white communion dress lying still in an open casket...

As a kid, I had a 'gut feeling' about resveratrol's benefits derived from Vitis Vinifera. I didn’t want to wait until I became an adult...

When it comes to love, humans prefer exclusivity. Yet, ‘true love’ must be shared. As we journey on mother earth, we begin our ascent to...

Why You Should Still Care About 'Bicycle Thieves,'' by A.O. Scott, on August 13, 2020 in the New York Times rekindled my pride. After...

Not a Dialogue With Plato In an age where social distancing is the norm, and we find refuge in virtual caves, it is comforting to know...

Pasqualino ‘Spaccalegna’ ‘Wood Splitter’ What? Chi ti ha interpellato? Who Asked You? Why? Terrone! Dirty Southerner… How? Guinea! (What...