By Dom Cioffi While I didn’t realize it at the time, on a warm summer day in 1984, the seeds of a lifelong cult worship were irrevocably sown. I was visiting a neighborhood friend when he mentioned that his parents […]
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Hanging on by a thread
By Dom Cioffi I tend to be a creature of habit. I drink coffee every morning from the same mug; I go to the same movie theater and sit in the same spot; I’ve jogged the same route every other […]
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Airing things out
By Dom Cioffi Music has the uncanny ability to transport us back in time. For example, just the other day, Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys are Back in Town” came on the radio and I was immediately jettisoned back to my […]
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Money can’t buy you love
By Dom Cioffi When I wake up, one of the first things I do after I grab a cup of coffee is sit down with my iPad and read the news. I used to read the daily newspaper every morning, […]
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Reading the scene
By Dom Cioffi Do you remember early in the pandemic, when the high school seniors were about to graduate and everyone was lamenting how sad it was for that age group? We all agreed that it didn’t seem fair that […]
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The keys to life
By Dom Cioffi I grew up under two extremes. My father’s parents (my paternal grandparents) were hard-working, blue-collar laborers, with my grandfather being a self-employed plumber and my grandmother the quintessential mother and housewife. They lived in a small two-story […]
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For the love of the game
By Dom Cioffi When I was in middle school in the early 1980s, I played in a flag football league sponsored by our city’s recreation department. The league brought together kids from all the local schools and organized them onto […]
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Things are getting real
By Dom Cioffi So, here we are in the middle of January. With the holidays now a distant past, all there is to look forward to is a powdery winter, the Super Bowl, and a spring break without excessive travel […]
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Raising the bar
By Dom Cioffi There’s a little bar a mile up the road from where I live. It’s part of a strip mall that houses the prerequisite pizza joint, nail salon, drug store, and karate center. There’s also a grocery store […]
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Shooting from the hip
By Dom Cioffi It was May 11, 1980, and the Philadelphia 76ers were playing the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA Championship. The Sixers were down two games to one heading into the crucial fourth game. With 7 minutes and […]