
Glamour in the Pines
Heading to a wedding. From left: my grandmother, Anna Renzi, Aunt Helen, and Mom, all in white. Who said…
February 25, 2021Heading to a wedding. From left: my grandmother, Anna Renzi, Aunt Helen, and Mom, all in white. Who said…
February 25, 2021I T A L I A N L O V E C A K E SUMMARY As…
February 20, 2021As the story goes, my Neapolitan great grandfather, Carmine Rodio, was bullied mercilessly at school, and soon became a…
February 16, 2021Writing ITALIAN LOVE CAKE, I felt compelled to recreate the life of an Italian-American woman in the 1930s. Often…
February 15, 2021Why I love clothes… Clothes “emote” and boy, so do Italians. Gaga’s National Anthem was a departure at the…
January 21, 2021For lovers of memoir, there is no better than In My Mother’s House (1983), by the glorious Kim Chernin, who…
January 3, 2021It was a warm night with fire flies lighting like stars, and they swirled around me, waist high, as…
June 25, 2020“WANTING WARHOL: My Connections to Andy Warhol” HERE: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/all-nonfiction As Kathy Acker wrote: “The world is gray…
June 18, 2020Naples’ old town is cut in two by the famous Naples’ Spaccanapoli, or Splitter — SEE Elena Ferrante’s…
April 7, 2020Inspiration & Writing