December 2010
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The Mortician's Son
Back in college at The Ohio State University, I took a non-fiction writing course, and decided for one of the assignments that I would write a short memoir about growing up in a funeral home. My father was a mortician in a 4 generation family business, and my family lived in the house connected to the funeral home. Whenever I recount a story from my childhood, people inevitably ask me,...
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Giovanni Pascoli Myricae Translations in English
I attended college at The Ohio State University, where I graduated with Bachelors degrees in English and Italian. My senior year I worked on a self-study course where the sole purpose was to translate 20 of Giovanni Pascoli’s poems. It has been 7 years since I translated these poems, but felt it was time to make them publicly available so that others could explore the works of Pascoli....