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 […]
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How sweet it is “Being the Ricardos”
By Dom Cioffi My father started smoking cigarettes when he was 13 years old. He lived in a time and environment where the activity was perfectly acceptable — almost encouraged — so there was little or no thought of the […]
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Taking an eye for an eye, or cheek for a cheek
By Dom Cioffi Once baptized by John the Baptist and after he had first preached to citizens of Galilee, the man known as Jesus of Nazareth wandered up a mountainside and sat down. Later, legions of his followers approached in […]
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Underneath it all: Discovering a new world
By Dom Cioffi Many, many decades ago, my grandmother bought herself a lake property. She had been ill for some time and was looking for a place to recuperate. In hindsight, it’s clear she was severely depressed, but back in […]
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Saving the day
By Dom Cioffi I was lucky enough to grow up next to a municipal playground. I could run from my back door to acres of limitless fun within 60 seconds. A pool, jungle gyms, baseball field, a hill that was […]
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Getting back to basics
By Dom Cioffi During one of my late-night forays into the depths of YouTube, I stumbled upon a video of a guy playing individual keys on a piano while his young son, who had his back turned, rattled off the […]
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Dying for a good read, life stories inspire
By Dom Cioffi I have an odd, longstanding fascination with reading obituaries. I have never consciously thought about doing this, it just happened unexpectedly. I believe my habit of reading the obituaries began with the death of my father, who […]
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Rising to the top
By Dom Cioffi My nightly routine usually consists of me lying in bed with my iPad watching YouTube videos until I get drowsy, after which I put on a podcast and fall asleep. Apparently digital interaction just before bed is […]