Abbondanza! by Peggy Jaeger

 I grew up in an Irish/Sicilian household - mom was the Irish descendant, step-dad the Sicilian, so whenever I hear the word ABUNDANCE, I hear it the way it was spoken in my home - the Italian way - ABBONDANZA.It sounds like such a joyous word when said in the language of Da Vinci, no?I still use it that way to this day when I describe things, like the abbondanza of books I have to read on my