Annette Januzzi Wick
@annettejwick.bsky.social
Writer. Author. Creator. | I’LL HAVE SOME OF YOURS (2019)| Coming soon: Something Italian: A history of flight, family and food at an Italian American table.
"Shouldn't all our lives be brimming with once in a lifetime chances?"
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"Shouldn't all our lives be brimming with once in a lifetime chances?"
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“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Stand By Me.
Stephen King offers a written tribute to Rob Reiner, as only he can. Beautiful, @stephenking.bsky.social.
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
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December 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Stand By Me.
Looking for a preview of my latest book, Something Italian? Thanks to @soapboxmedia.bsky.social here's a little taste.
Inventorying my Italian American mother’s Christmas cookies soapboxmedia.com/inventorying...
Inventorying my Italian American mother’s Christmas cookies soapboxmedia.com/inventorying...
Inventorying my Italian American mother’s Christmas cookies – Soapbox
A local writer discovered that making a different kind of Christmas list kept her present at her mother’s bedside during a holiday at the hospital.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Looking for a preview of my latest book, Something Italian? Thanks to @soapboxmedia.bsky.social here's a little taste.
Inventorying my Italian American mother’s Christmas cookies soapboxmedia.com/inventorying...
Inventorying my Italian American mother’s Christmas cookies soapboxmedia.com/inventorying...
Food writer and memoirist Annette Januzzi Wick is proud to announce the release of her newest book, Something Italian: From Distant Shores to Family Tables, The Recipes That Held Us Together, a heartfelt blend of storytelling, culinary tradition and family history.
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"Something Italian" Now Out!
Confronting imposter syndrome, we learn that we're all a blend of history, memoir, and food.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Food writer and memoirist Annette Januzzi Wick is proud to announce the release of her newest book, Something Italian: From Distant Shores to Family Tables, The Recipes That Held Us Together, a heartfelt blend of storytelling, culinary tradition and family history.
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Thanks for the sit down. It’s refreshing to hear from the younger generations on how they are working their way through these times.
Sat down with @annettejwick.bsky.social to talk about journalism, book writing and why I moved back to my hometown (Cincinnati) after 20+ years away:
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Journalist Amanda Becker returns to “stand up” for Ohio – Soapbox
As a writer for the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, Becker focuses on educating the public about individual rights, highlighting those advancing the work and informing communities about local action.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Thanks for the sit down. It’s refreshing to hear from the younger generations on how they are working their way through these times.
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Check out this article from Cincinnati.com:
Where to find food assistance in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky if SNAP benefits run out
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Where to find food assistance in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky if SNAP benefits run out
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Breaking Cincinnati news, traffic, weather and local headlines from The Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Check out this article from Cincinnati.com:
Where to find food assistance in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky if SNAP benefits run out
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Where to find food assistance in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky if SNAP benefits run out
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Menopause Is NOT One Day Women manage an everyday normal life while in wait mode—again—for this stealth stranger known as menopause, which according to our friend is just one day.
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Menopause Is NOT One Day
It’s the "change" of a lifetime
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September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Menopause Is NOT One Day Women manage an everyday normal life while in wait mode—again—for this stealth stranger known as menopause, which according to our friend is just one day.
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A pair of lions at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, allegedly loosely affiliated with the Pacific Northwest chapter of Antifa, await the arrival of federal troops sent in by President Trump.
Developing story. 😳🦁
Developing story. 😳🦁
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A pair of lions at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, allegedly loosely affiliated with the Pacific Northwest chapter of Antifa, await the arrival of federal troops sent in by President Trump.
Developing story. 😳🦁
Developing story. 😳🦁
Whenever someone mentioned Detroit, my ears perked up. You used to work there? You lived there a while back? The mere mention of Detroit snapped my mind to attention.
When would be my time for Detroit? What would it be the city's turn for me?
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When would be my time for Detroit? What would it be the city's turn for me?
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Detroit: Car culture, coney islands, cool shoes, and castoffs of capitalism
When is the city's "next time?"
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July 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Whenever someone mentioned Detroit, my ears perked up. You used to work there? You lived there a while back? The mere mention of Detroit snapped my mind to attention.
When would be my time for Detroit? What would it be the city's turn for me?
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When would be my time for Detroit? What would it be the city's turn for me?
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Writers know what we’re built for when we’re in it, when the iron strikes. If we’re not in it, if we’re not writing, if we go cold, we fall apart. Misery wins.
What are you built for? Read on.
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What are you built for? Read on.
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Were you built to be a Mouseketeer or a track star?
Names and role models provide scaffolding to our own structures.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Writers know what we’re built for when we’re in it, when the iron strikes. If we’re not in it, if we’re not writing, if we go cold, we fall apart. Misery wins.
What are you built for? Read on.
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What are you built for? Read on.
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Whether marching with several thousands blue cities or protesting in the middle of a handful of heroic marchers in red states, confidence came from not feeling alone."
What did I find "left behind"? What did you?
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What did I find "left behind"? What did you?
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Amid “No Kings” Protests, What's Left Behind?
Other than signs
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June 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Whether marching with several thousands blue cities or protesting in the middle of a handful of heroic marchers in red states, confidence came from not feeling alone."
What did I find "left behind"? What did you?
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What did I find "left behind"? What did you?
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Last Saturday, I took a shoemaking workshop. Some nails hit their mark, others left a mark on my thumb. Pounding of twenty some nails into a plastic last, a whoosh startled me. It was the ancestors.
My latest is up! Read to the end for the finished product!
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My latest is up! Read to the end for the finished product!
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A Shoemaker's granddaughter returns
to the craft and herself.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Last Saturday, I took a shoemaking workshop. Some nails hit their mark, others left a mark on my thumb. Pounding of twenty some nails into a plastic last, a whoosh startled me. It was the ancestors.
My latest is up! Read to the end for the finished product!
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My latest is up! Read to the end for the finished product!
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Reading Dream Hotel by Laila LaLami is like immersing oneself in the entirety of one news cycle in the US. It's real--and possible. I'm worried for my dreams now for sure.
May 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reading Dream Hotel by Laila LaLami is like immersing oneself in the entirety of one news cycle in the US. It's real--and possible. I'm worried for my dreams now for sure.
"Work isn't glamorous. It’s what we do. I write bi-weekly missives to connect to readers, encourage them to support my work, earn credibility. We all want a little credibility. What workers don’t want is someone to take away the little credibility we already have."
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Defending federal workers is a defense of all workers.
My father’s workday routine, before driving to the family shoe store, included his stainless-steel thermos and his classic metal Stanley lunch box with two buckles.
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April 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Work isn't glamorous. It’s what we do. I write bi-weekly missives to connect to readers, encourage them to support my work, earn credibility. We all want a little credibility. What workers don’t want is someone to take away the little credibility we already have."
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Why is it never enough, to be without papers (WOP is slang for Italians without papers)? To prove we exist because our feet have walked the earth?
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My latest is up!
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The Museum of My Italian Grandparents
Why do papers have to prove immigrants exist?
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April 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Why is it never enough, to be without papers (WOP is slang for Italians without papers)? To prove we exist because our feet have walked the earth?
My latest is up!
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My latest is up!
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"I opened Espress-way in August of 1994, married in September, and closed the business in early 1996 due to a move—to Oregon. In that time, I learned mostly, that I needed NPR, coffee, and Aunt Lynne in my life."
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A Husband’s Aunt, a Drive-thru Coffee Bar, and NPR
How the three came together to teach me about the world.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"I opened Espress-way in August of 1994, married in September, and closed the business in early 1996 due to a move—to Oregon. In that time, I learned mostly, that I needed NPR, coffee, and Aunt Lynne in my life."
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“Library visits became a pattern to pursue. Some people visit baseball stadiums when traveling, I take in a library. Library services save lives, jobs, dreams. Through Covid, libraries saved many a soul.”
Are we still a nation fit to inherit our wealth of books?
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Are we still a nation fit to inherit our wealth of books?
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Libraries & Books: A fit inheritance or target of a presidential hissy fit?
By the time my son learned to read, we had moved away from our beloved Oregon and returned to Ohio.
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March 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Library visits became a pattern to pursue. Some people visit baseball stadiums when traveling, I take in a library. Library services save lives, jobs, dreams. Through Covid, libraries saved many a soul.”
Are we still a nation fit to inherit our wealth of books?
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Are we still a nation fit to inherit our wealth of books?
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"Perhaps it’s a collective amnesia about Covid, or our inability to find the right words for might be called a “great interruption” or the “anthropause," that has caused our blinders to stay in place."
Have you taken the time to reflect? Latest post it up1
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Have you taken the time to reflect? Latest post it up1
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Time to reflect on your pandemic years?
What scares us, what can help overcome that fear.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Perhaps it’s a collective amnesia about Covid, or our inability to find the right words for might be called a “great interruption” or the “anthropause," that has caused our blinders to stay in place."
Have you taken the time to reflect? Latest post it up1
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Have you taken the time to reflect? Latest post it up1
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When one word has two meanings….
February 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When one word has two meanings….
The top question asked about living in a neighborhood in flux, with its prosperous and dubious history, was, “You’re packin’ a gun, right?” More statement, it was accompanied by a shifty grin as if they were in the movies.
Read on for my answer below.
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Read on for my answer below.
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Do You Still Love Over-the-Rhine?
Why a "moving day" is good for all of us.
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February 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The top question asked about living in a neighborhood in flux, with its prosperous and dubious history, was, “You’re packin’ a gun, right?” More statement, it was accompanied by a shifty grin as if they were in the movies.
Read on for my answer below.
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Read on for my answer below.
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After the SuperBowl with their super QB, I'm ready to go all in on Philly. Seems like my kind of town.
February 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
After the SuperBowl with their super QB, I'm ready to go all in on Philly. Seems like my kind of town.
Hey writers, @weeknightwriters.bsky.social writers, all writers I follow, looking for a quote about the first gen of immigrants and their children struggle to work, to make it, the job of the next gen is to make meaning from the struggle. I can't recall the author, and it's not in my "stacks." Help!
February 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hey writers, @weeknightwriters.bsky.social writers, all writers I follow, looking for a quote about the first gen of immigrants and their children struggle to work, to make it, the job of the next gen is to make meaning from the struggle. I can't recall the author, and it's not in my "stacks." Help!
I'm Italian. I'm really good at "opposition."
We might have a few less seats in Congress but we’re not going to be the minority. We’re going to be the opposition.
Thanks @leximcmenamin.bsky.social & @teenvogue.com for covering.
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Thanks @leximcmenamin.bsky.social & @teenvogue.com for covering.
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"Resist, Obstruct, Protect Our People": Maxwell Frost Has a Plan for Taking on Trump
"Why is a single Democrat voting to confirm any of these Trump Cabinet nominees?"
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February 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm Italian. I'm really good at "opposition."
It feels fitting to post this today...
"Digging deep into the internet, I learned more about the player whose jersey I would wear. And excavated some deep connections to the Cleveland Browns and why I demonstrated a curious sympathy toward “Johnny Football.”
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"Digging deep into the internet, I learned more about the player whose jersey I would wear. And excavated some deep connections to the Cleveland Browns and why I demonstrated a curious sympathy toward “Johnny Football.”
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Why I'll Wear a Manziel Jersey
Pride was not the only loss I experienced as an NFL (fantasy) football fan.
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February 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It feels fitting to post this today...
"Digging deep into the internet, I learned more about the player whose jersey I would wear. And excavated some deep connections to the Cleveland Browns and why I demonstrated a curious sympathy toward “Johnny Football.”
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"Digging deep into the internet, I learned more about the player whose jersey I would wear. And excavated some deep connections to the Cleveland Browns and why I demonstrated a curious sympathy toward “Johnny Football.”
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