Something I wish I could say to any Italian-Americans angry at efforts to eliminate or rename Columbus Day, because to them it’s a holiday celebrating their ethnicity’s contributions to our history: Dudes, or rather, Paisans, I know where you’re coming from. We all like having a special day to celebrate the people we come from, […]
It so happens that I was about to complain at length about the following, one of the worst things we do to one another in our advocacy of various causes, before Senator Marco Rubio obliged me by indulging in the sin himself. He tweeted, “Look at all this outrage over a dead lion, but where […]
In the early days of my marriage to Judi, we experienced a windfall. When she was small, her grandfather bequeathed her and two other relatives a plot of land, in an undeveloped part of Florida. Her section was never worth more than about $500.00, for about half an acre (I think). Then, for a few […]