Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

One of the best things about being part of an interfaith family is getting to celebrate twice as many holidays as most folks. Tonight that means I’ll be having apples and honey to ring in the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. But in the Jewish religion, Rosh Hashanah is...
A Working Class Hero

A Working Class Hero

Back in the late 1930s, my Great Aunt Beatrice DelGiudice Queally experienced great personal tragedy in the midst of national economic malaise—Aunt Bea’s husband died while she was pregnant with her first child, less than a year after their wedding day. With a child...