Life in phone hell
Today I’m here to address a life-long fear I’ve carried with me from year to year, from country to country, [...]
Home at last
All journeys begin at home. And, with any luck and a fair headwind, that is where the best of them [...]
Catherine, Gaettani, and artichokes
Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but at least one blond prefers artichokes. When Fillipo Strozzi introduced artichokes to the ruling Medici [...]
The mangling of Medusa
When the bronze statue of a fierce, snake-haired, naked woman armed with a sword and holding the freshly decapitated head [...]
Sex worker, “interrupted”
One year ago I was broke in Barcelona. I had only one reliable client, and my best girlfriend, also an [...]
Losing the faith
I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in [...]
My daughter the antibody
As a single father to a 10-year-old girl I've learned it’s a really smart thing to find a secret place [...]
A pointed finale
A fairly young, fairly attractive, fairly intelligent woman jumped from the top floor of a luxury hotel in Warsaw. It [...]
Rethinking the Vikings
An algorithm recently suggested that I learn about the Vikings. I took its advice and have just finished listening to [...]
James and Peggy in the Latin Quarter
This is excellent, wrote my bass teacher, sending me a link to an article about American writer James Baldwin’s relationship [...]
On rules and AstraZeneca
Now that millions of us have been fully vaccinated, we're chomping at the bit to get back to a normal [...]