Very, very expensive ones: a black Lexus SUV, a Bentley, a Porsche, an Aston Martin. I read the logo on one model and saw it was a Lamborghini. I considered parking my Subaru down the street a ways but chided myself for being silly. I owned it free and clear and knew that not everyone who drove t...
All the immediate Vanelli family members were loud and expressive. Except for Mom and me, that is. We both clung to our more quiet Scandinavian—Norwegian and Swedish—roots. On top of that, my biological father was of English descent. Consequently, loud and expressive was not in my gene pool, or p...