Woodside

Drop me off in Woodside and let me start my weeklong stay free from parental restraint.  

It started off at my mom’s mom at her apartment in Queens known as the Mets and the second part of my stay found me in Greenpoint with my father’s parents still both alive. The order of my visit was in my hands and I always left the best for last.  

My maternal Grandmother doted on me and fed me meals on my special decorative plate, which I always wanted to take home with me. Nanny would tell me it had to stay here in her apartment for safekeeping as it made eating off it all the more special.  The extra dessert was my pre pubescent girlfriend and somewhere in one of my visits I gave her my first buss and although it was disastrous or so I thought the feeling of being with Debbie DeMarco is something I will always treasure. She called me Jackie back then a name that stuck until college.