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About a year ago, I went to Nanuet, New York to mail a package. I think it was at a UPS store, but it could have been FedEx. I don't remember now. Nanuet is in Rockland County, an area I would call...

Monday, September 22, 1958 The weather was still warm. The remnant of a very hot summer. It was a day I will never forget. I had just turned 8 years old in June and was now in the second grade. I ...

 I had no intention of writing a Gino Ranno series—none whatsoever. I had written and self-published two poetry books, poems that I started writing when I was around 18: Anxiety’s Next and Anxiety’...

      I met John Gojcaj more than a few years ago when I was hanging out at the J & R Cigar store in Paramus, New Jersey. Now called the Monte Cristo Lounge.  I was smoking a cigar, and he was ...

 Maybe one day I will try my hand at l’amore but for now I can say my mind tends to go toward criminal activity. My Sicilian family can’t be blamed for any of this. In my family tree, there is not ...

 There are so many experiences in life that I find it impossible to say what my favorite anything is. For example…when someone asks who my favorite baseball player has been, my mind flashes so many...

Part of the way the nuns made us compliant in the 1950’s until 1964 was making us write 500 hundred times some… I will not punishment

Lately, people have been asking me what I’m doing right now. Right now, I’m writing a blog and smoking a cigar on my deck in New Jersey in my underwear under a canape because it's drizzling. 

It didn’t surprise me that INTERCESSION and the VIC GONNELLA SERIES would be my best sellers. It took some time and advertising for the books to start getting noticed, but I’m grateful that they ar...