The Epiphany
I GREW UP in a home without books. No novels. No mysteries. No biographies. No romances. Not even Dr. Seuss. No one read to me before...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Dec 6, 2022
- 3 min
When Your Bags Are Packed
IT STARTED SLOWLY. Both the curious behavior and my ability to accept the reality of what was happening. First, there was the packing....
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
The Memory Box
SO THIS WAS THE LAST OF IT – a sorry-looking box, way on the other side of the long, hot, cramped attic floor and I thought, ”Ugh! I’m...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Chopped
I KNEW MY MOTHER-IN-LAW had finally lost it when she turned to me in mid-bite during dinner one evening and said: “You know, you’re a...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Jun 18, 2022
- 3 min
Sir Paul is 80 Today. No! No! No!
THE FIRST TIME I heard “She Loves You,” I was sitting in the back seat of my parents’ Rambler American as they stopped for gas, listening...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
My Father's Gun
MY FATHER had a gun. One handgun. A German Luger. A souvenir from WWII. We never talked about it. My dad didn’t say much about the war....
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Rosemary Parrillo
- May 14, 2022
- 4 min
Drifting Along with the Tumbleweeds
I JUST RECEIVED another letter from Billy in Hurst, Texas. He used to write from nearby Euless, but it looks like he’s moved his...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Apr 28, 2022
- 4 min
Italians Don’t Swim
THE WOMAN'S SCREAMS penetrated the waiting room door, a tsunami of unbridled anguish so startling that even fish in the aquarium scurried...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Apr 9, 2022
- 4 min
Grandmom and The Fronds of Glory
PALM SUNDAY always takes me back to the memory of a tiny house on a impossibly-narrow one-way street in South Philadelphia where my...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Apr 5, 2022
- 3 min
DEFCON in the Country – Part II
AS VLADIMI'R PUTIN'S mad-cow assault slogs on in Ukraine without a plausible endgame in sight, the eventual possibility of a "nuclear...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Mar 5, 2022
- 2 min
DEFCON in the Country
It was the summer of 1956. July. I was 5 years old. We had just moved out of South Philadelphia into a new home in Maple Shade, New...
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Rosemary Parrillo
- Jan 6, 2022
- 3 min
This is the Dawning
I WROTE MY FIRST PLAY in high school. The subject matter is hazy, these many years later. I don't even recall the title -- only that it...
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