Joseph Carucci is an older man who, with his wife of fifty-plus years, raised three successful children and currently has eight grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. As a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the nineteen forties and fifties, and then moving with his family to the New York suburbs, he came to appreciate and learn from the vastly different religious, ethnic, and culturally diverse people he lived with. In the middle of his life, he and his wife left the New York City area and moved to Upstate New York where he experienced a different cultural diversity and lifestyle from the New York area.ln this, his first published memoir, he recounts his unforgettable family life, global travels with friends, impish actions he did, and the often hilarious outcomes experienced for the reader’s enjoyment. He also shares recipes passed on to him as family secrets, as well as several unique children’s stories he learned as a toddler.