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Two weekends ago I went to a family reunion for my dad’s mother’s side. Thanks to work and life and stuff, I hadn’t seen this side of my family in a few years. There were new babies and little kids that I never met. Now that I have cousins significantly younger than me, I finally [...]

Well, yinz guys, I’m about to go on my first big solo road trip* to a family reunion in mid-New York state, the Fingers Lakes region. Wine country! I’m pretty excited, even though I had a few things trip me up this morning, i.e. picking up the GPS from my parents, stopping in a Starbucks [...]

Saturday was my mother’s mother’s side’s annual family reunion. It’s the Italian part of me and they’ve been going to a local family amusement park since I was a small child. There are matching t-shirts, card games, and tons and tons of food, of course. It’s as dorky as it goes and I completely love [...]

My sister texted me last week that she was going to be in Pittsburgh over the weekend and wanted to meet Sunday morning for pancakes. Because I’m me, I like to play a board game while I wait for my flapjacks. The decision on what to play took some time: Me: Do you want to [...]

The apartment situation didn’t quite work out the way I was expecting. I know everything will work out in the end (it has to), and I’m trying not to dwell on the bad. Moving on. My Easter was fantastic. I went to church with my family. The flowers were pretty. After that, there were a [...]

This year was… okay. I didn’t start a new job, move to a new house or a buy a new car, unlike last year. It was bookended with car problems in January and December. I met a ton of new people and grew apart from others. I’m still single. The optimist in me would like [...]

So, how has everyone’s past few days been? Here’s mine: My car was declared unfit to be on the roads more than necessary on Christmas Eve. No three hour round trip to my parents’ house. I called my parents to let them know. My mom asked if I wanted them to pick me up. “Don’t [...]

I just found out tonight that instead of having dinner tomorrow in the mid-afternoon like we usually do, it’s going to be at noon tomorrow. Noon sharp, I was told. Apparently everyone in my family has a second dinner to go to later. This means I need to get there by 11 am, so the [...]

I like chandeliers, but you don’t see them very often. Or maybe they are in houses that I’m just not visiting. The house I grew up in was from the early 1900s and had a grand Victorian staircase in the front entryway. It was made of deep dark wood (Cherry? Oak? I have no idea), [...]

Me: Ughhh, I wish I had more money. Mom: Hey, I told you when you were college that when you picked English as your major, you may have to wait tables.* Me: But I’m not waiting tables. Mom: I know, you’re doing better than we expected. *My mom has said this five thousand times since [...]