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About me

Hello to all, and I hope that you will find my articles interesting. I take great pleasure in writing about that which I am passionate, and Helium has provided a terrific platform which allows us to articulate our feelings on various issues. Please write me if you have opinions which you care to share, for that is what a free society is about, the right to opine openly.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

my family

I know too much about ...

Can you ever know too much?

My parents always told me ...

to do the right thing.

My childhood ambition ...

was to succeed at that which I enjoyed.

My favorite memory ...

was the birth of my grandchild.

Why I write ...

enjoyment, and an intellectual outlet.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

all that I can.

My first job ...

was shoveling snow, raking leaves, and delivering newspapers.

My best moment ...

Supporting my wife during childbirth.

My inspiration ...

my family.

Featured article by Barry Girolamo

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Sundays in the South: 3 of 3

My grandmother lived in Georgia, and we would spend a lot of time down there during the summer months. I loved the small town where my mother had come from, and it really was like a scene out of the old “Andy Griffith” television show back in the sixties. All of the houses had large porches, complete with porch swings suspended from chains, where people would swing after dinner to cool down. Air-conditioning was very uncommon back then, and it would get extremely hot. So after dinner, everyone would be outside on their porches, talking across the street to one another, as we ki...
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