writing

  • Re-awakening an old muscle

    The height of my Spanish proficiency occurred when I was 20 years old. It was the Fall of my Junior year of college. I had just come back from spending the summer in a language emersion program in Barcelona. That fall I enrolled in a Spanish literature course. I had finally graduated from the formal… Continue reading

  • Filling the church

    How do you measure a life? A grand philosophical question with a plethora of potential answers, but this last weekend had me thinking about this as I attended my grandmother’s funeral. My grandmother Theresa DiFranco passed away at the age of 96. Born in 1929, she was a product of the Great Depression. She lived… Continue reading