Originally published June, 2009 As Angelina Jolie once quipped, “I’m so in love with my brother.” While I could never understand the kiss in which she chose to express this sibling love, I do know exactly how she feels because I also am in love with my brother. I love my three brothers equally but …
Originally published March, 2010 I left my home in New York State in 1976 to pursue my lifelong dream of working in the animal industry. I was fortunate enough to be accepted into a junior college in California that would award me an Associate’s Degree in Exotic Animal Training and Management. It was the most …
Anyone who knows me knows I suffer from a pretty acute case of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). I’ve been this way all of my life; of course when I was a child they didn’t have a name for it other than to refer to me as “hyper.” For the most part the disorder serves …
Around 2009 at the behest of a writer friend, I began a blog I called, This Gioia’s Chronicles. A few times a week I created and shared posts that ranged from observational essays of life, shared the impact of how the loss of my parents when I was just a year old affected my life, …