Tag: Joe Mazzella

A recent storm had caused a tree to fall knocking down power lines across a road here. The guy holding the stop sign said it would be four hours before…

I caught myself the other day. I had just sat down at my computer keyboard to write a letter to my Aunt Charlotte when I remembered that she was no…

I woke up just as the sun was rising the other day. As I walked my dogs I noticed the fireflies still shining their little lights while the sun turned…

For many years now, I have tried to make a quicker version of my Nana’s homemade spaghetti sauce. And I have finally realized that there can be no shortcuts to…

Getting older is a funny thing. When I was a teenager I would lift weights in the morning, jog 2 ½ miles to the local swimming pool, and then swim…

It was the first school dance during my freshman year at college. I didn’t have a date but decided to go anyway. It was fun for the first hour. I…

Every summer here I delight in the day that the fireflies return. I love watching their blinking lights filling the meadow behind my home. Sometimes I see hundreds of them…

Spring and Summer are yard sale seasons in the country. They pop up faster than the dandelions in the meadows. Everyone at once seems to be selling their old stuff…