Later this year it will have been 9 years since I moved to Los Angeles. NINE YEARS! Remarkableand also so so scary that time has moved that quickly. Before I moved to LA, my dad warned me, You can lose a decade with a blink of an eye. He was right. Time has flown. Life is so busy here, perhaps too busy.
When I first moved to LA, I loved going out on the eastside of town. Read More...
Few topics of discussion between kids and parents are as fraught as cellphone use. That’s because phones intersect with so many areas of parental concern: safety, gaming, screen time, social media, bullying, sleep, grades, attention, manners, responsibility, peer pressure, sexual behavior … the list goes on.
“This is the world we’re in, and it’s not going away,” said Adam Pletter, a child psychologist in Bethesda, Md., who helps parents deal with the ongoing changes in technology. Read More...
Dean Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on June 7, 1917, to Italian father Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (1894-1967) and Italian-American mother Angela Crocetti (1897-1966). His father, a barber, was born in Montesilvano, Pescara, and his mother was born in Fernwood, Jefferson County, Ohio, on December 18, 1897. Domenico Barra, Angela’s father, immigrated from Monasterolo del Castello, Bergamo. Guglielmo “William” Antonio Crocetti was Martin’s older brother.
Dean Martin’s first language was Italian, and he did not begin speaking English until he was five years old. Read More...
