I was having trouble trying to find the right present for my brother Gary’s 35th birthday. We were having a dual celebration that night of both his and my birthdays […]
Francis DiNardo
Reno Sharpe’s Store
“Hey c’mere … you live roun’ here?” asked the man in a plaid jacket and blue cap as he threw bags of garbage from the back of his old red […]
Virginia Dare
The first English child born in the New World , Virginia Dare, was born on Roanoke Island in North Carolina in August 1587. Her Grandfather, John White, went back to […]
FranPa Was Runover By A Sled
I was spending Christmas in Vermont with my step daughter Caryn, her husband Ron and their 2 boys Matthew and Ryan (ages 9 and 6, respectively). My step son Marc […]
Erin meets Nancy Pelosi
The next President of the United States? In April 2006 we introduced our granddaughter, Erin, to Washington DC. In 2006, Hillary Clinton had not yet formally declared her candidacy for […]