[caww]

......”I think you can tell a lot about a country by looking at how folks (not government) treat the older one in their lives”.....

Well we're pretty much the only country that kicks our kids out of home at 18 and puts our Seniors into Institutional holding boxes.

[dp0622]

only until I was seven did I live with just my parents and brothers and sisters. Before then it was with my aunt and her family. Before then there were three generations of Italians living in a house on Carroll Street.

until maybe my early twenties many still lived on Staten island and we got together so often and it was so great.

now I am the only sibling still on Staten island. Mom is 10 minutes away. My sisters are only 40 minutes away in New Jersey and they see her once a week but it is not like the old days.

I will never have as much fun as I did when everybody lived together or very near each other