Anya and Kerensa, my granddaughter, have been friends ever since they met as college freshman percussion students four years ago.

My name is Tony Lopresti and today my ego took a hit.

I am a full-time Tier 1 Amazon Associate at a Fulfillment Center. It’s a love/hate mutually-parasitical relationship.

A visit to a public beach in Calabria leads to witnessing a woman's encounter with the god of the sea

My name is Tony Lopresti and I’ve been a lector since I started high school.

How is it that an innocent remark made by a seven year-old comes around again and again

My father is a font of wisdom and once gave me this sage advice

This morning I woke up with my cheeks wet with tears.

I’m a freshwater kid at heart.

Some places have the power to change the way we look at and live in the world. This is the first in a series

This is an essay drawn from a sermon preached on World Communion Sunday, October 7, 2018, at Peace United Church of Christ, Duluth,...

I woke up to the sound of foghorns: long, deep, incessant foghorns.

As all the world knows, J. Donald Kent, voluntarily stopped driving three weeks before his 98th birthday

Sometime after midnight on July 6, 1982, my brothers and I climbed the old cherry-picker ladder

What is necessary for “community”?  A dictionary definition says it is members of a social group who have something in common - a...

When I stepped off the plane in Honolulu in the winter of 1978 I was a dazed, pasty-skinned 23-year-old with no return ticket.

My Dad is a minister.. many ministers have other interests they pursue with “religious” fervor

In the spring of 1980, I began playing music in the Boston subways

“Your generation will fix these things for us, right?” my adult daughter asked.

Late one night a few weeks before my sixteenth birthday, some friends and I sat on the end of a dock