After forty some odd years I reconneted with the people from my youth. I admit that I was dragged into this situation, kicking and screaming, by my closest friends and family. It seemed that everyday one was prompting me to become a member of "Facebook".
It seemed to me to be far too interactive a site for a serious songwriter to promote themself and I avoided it until it simply became inevitable.
Within a few hours I was accosted by a 'deluge' of names that conjured up memories both good and bad while I puzzeled over trying to connect  the new millenium faces I was shown to those names that I recalled. I began to realize that somehow all of these 'kids' that I spent, or misspent, my youth surrouned by had also grown up.
I also was faced with the harsh reality that there were those who had not grown up.
And then the name, Albert Vagnozzi appeared in the familiar "friend request". I knew of Albert. He was a classmate in the neighborhood Catholic Parochial School of my older brother. I was in the same class as his younger brother. In this small crowded ethnic Italian enclave, this was not an uncommon situation. I recalled both of these 'boys' as being the sort you would not think twice about allowing your little sister to date. Bright, witty, polite and very personable. I soon found that Albert had not lost any of these characteristics. If anything he had developed them into a clear and interesting writing style and he makes these thoughts available to anyone who cares to take the time to read them.
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Albert's Anecdotes