Abracadabra, the magic word
Maybe a chicken is clever enough to cross a road without the aid of a philosophy, but no human being [...]
Best of times, worst of times
Amid the West's travails with COVID-19, a not-so-little detail is often passed over. Almost miraculously, the pandemic hasn't found much [...]
La mangione
Not so long ago I was feeding my daughter Julia bites of sweet potato fries at dinner. Suddenly, though, she [...]
You can’t go home again
As a boy, my Sicilian ophthalmologist was for a long time addicted to American dog shows. He avidly watched "Rin [...]
One father’s war
This I know: the picture was taken in 1941 by a Rome street photographer while roaming through the city's famous [...]
The good, the bad, and (horrors), the correct
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances, And [...]
God’s little jokes
Every night before drifting off to sleep I say a little prayer to god (God, if you prefer), in whom [...]
Signs of civilization
As a former educator, one of the things I remember best, and perhaps even miss a bit, is the tendency [...]
Over the edge
To believe the world was flat conferred wonderful advantages to any boy who would not budge from this belief. At [...]
Apres mois, les avocats
Power of attorney is granted by one person to an anointed surrogate in the event the figure charged with decision-making [...]