http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com You can't make this stuff up Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:10:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are two topics that can make by blood boil. One is politics. The other is the Red Sox. There are people who generally know this...and use it frequently to get me going. It's not unusual for baseball talk to start now. Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2010/02/04/in-theo-we-trust/ Okay. I need some help with this one. Today I was driving up in New Hampshire, and I found myself behind a truck with the one sticker that really sets me off. It's pictured here and the one on the back of this particular truck read "Git 'r Drunk."  I ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/10/27/git-r-drunk-wtf/ People who know me always make the comment that I've been "gay from the womb." They're right. I have been. I can't ever remember a time when my sexual orientation was different than it is now. There's been a lot of discussion about whether being gay is about sexual preference ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/10/20/coming-to-terms-with-being-gay/ There's no doubt that I had a fair amount of European business travel during the eighties. I went to Paris a few times, and on one memorable trip to Paris I decided to take a week's vacation and fly across to London. I had been to Paris and Strasbourg quite ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/10/08/boston-to-paris-to-london-and-back/ My dad died when I was nine, so my memories of my dad are not as voluminous as they are of my mom. Yet, in spite of the fact that he's been dead forty-six years, the memories I do have are pretty vivid. My memories are almost like short little ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/10/01/julius-francis-della-piana-aka-my-dad/ Yeah, before she was a Della Piana, she was a Catanzano. That was my mom. She was born in Somerville, Massachusetts on March 26, 1910, and she was one of ten children (two of them died as babies). My mom passed away in Medford, Massachusetts on February 19, 1992 from ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/09/29/frances-louise-catanzano-aka-my-mom/ Okay, haven't written much on this, but I've had a hopeless Red Sox affliction since the Cardiac Kids (that would be 1967; I was thirteen). That '67 team was awesome; they pulled it out of the fire so many times it was unbelievable. The '86 team was pretty good too. ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/09/20/my-hopeless-red-sox-affliction/ I've often told people there are only two places I could live other than Boston. One is Washington, D.C. The other is San Francisco. I took one great business trip out to San Francisco during the late nineties (could have been 2000, not sure). I know the photo I'm using ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/09/18/i-left-my-heart/ At one point in our lives, Greg, Jack, Sam, John and I partied like there was no tomorrow in Vermont. But we didn't just party anywhere. We were partying in luxury homes at Hawk Mountain. There were two sets of these homes back then, one in Pittsfield and one in ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/09/14/in-the-party-zone/ Never let it be said that business travel isn't sometimes adventurous. It is especially adventurous when you're somewhat fearless and have no idea WTF you are doing or where you are going. That would sum up my trip to Chicago for the Pittsburgh Conference. I'm not sure when this little ... http://wtf-is-with-my-life.com/2009/09/14/more-than-one-close-call-in-chicago/