Family legend has it that my grandfather left the Basque region of Spain and emigrated to Mexico, where he married my grandmother and moved to the US. On the other side of the family, my grandfather left Sicily alone as a young man and moved to NYC, where he met my grandmother who came here from Sicily with her parents and siblings.

My kids are little UN's: one is English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Hispanic. The other is English, Irish, German, Swedish, Russian, Italian, Hispanic.