Cool Whip resolutions
For the biblical Three Kings, the January epiphany represented the spreading of one religion's good news. News that was big [...]
The Mamma Mission
One of my missions when I visited Rome a few years ago was to find out about mamma, the mother [...]
“Wisdom born of pain”
After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it seems clear early on [...]
Beasts of the Cretaceous
Long before I started going blind, I was an only child in a capital city. A more practical way of [...]
The lies expats tell
Never trust an expat. Expats are liars. We lie to ourselves. We lie to our families. We lie to our [...]
Growing into dictatorship
Among life's most universal human experiences is to hear the older tell the younger about the pitfalls that lie ahead. [...]
Revolution in the offing
It’s a question about something few ask, as if the subject were the holy grail: Will Rome soon become another [...]
The American crown
What emanated from this American president is not fascism, as some are wont to believe, but monarchism. This president is [...]
What you can and cannot see
The highlight of my 2018 was a trip to France to commemorate the centenary of the World War I Armistice, [...]
The Straight Story
David Lynch is often labeled one of American cinema’s great surrealists, to the extent that the term “Lynchian” is now [...]