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Jul 25, 20234 min read

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, 20223 min read

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, 20222 min read

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, 20222 min read

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, 20223 min read

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, 20223 min read

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, 20224 min read

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, 20224 min read

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, 20224 min read

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, 20223 min read

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, 20222 min read

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 7, 20221 min read

Thank You , Mr. Poitier

Class act. Classic '60s.

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Rosemary Parrillo

Jan 6, 20223 min read

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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