Found out that my very Italian grandmother is actually a good 30 percent Middle Eastern! (Unfortunately the test isn’t more specific than that.) Which just makes me even more of (to quote a former editor) an “all-American mutt”!
The season come again for winter’s tales, I tell you one which my nurse told to me As watched I warily the swirling snows. “I’ll raise one up,” she swore, “of ghosts by night…”