Who is your dead body friend (DBF)? A DBF is someone you call when you find yourself in possession of a corpse that needs to be disposed of quickly and without incident. If you’ve seen Pulp Fiction, Mr. Wolf is the DBF of Marsalis Wallace. My daughter Francie asked me…

Our family holds Sunday Night Dinner every week. Being Italian and Catholic, this ritual is one that can be found in many families across the country. We have been lucky enough to have an Irish neighbor join our family in this custom for over a decade. We lost the patriarch…

“No one knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” — MLK There is a reason we didn’t work yesterday. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a modern day Saint. The Saints in my religion are those individuals that are believed to be with God. The status…

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” — Pericles When you get to be 50 years old and become a grandfather in the same year, you start thinking less about production and more about legacy. What…