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The Day of the Puma
Some forty May moons ago, when balding Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi held monied sway over suddenly booming Italy and [...]
On Pope Francis and war
In most of the West, Pope Francis I is facing furious media and public indignation for his unwillingness to openly [...]
The Ukraine sandlot
A bully with outsized delusions of long-gone glory invades his now independent but one-time fiefdom to the south because it [...]
Radio days
Among the plethora of crannies on the web is a section called “Classic Baseball Radio Broadcasts.” Contained here are more [...]
Coffee with glaucoma
At the end of the carpeted corridor is a tall step that leads into the kitchen. Remember this well. Memorize [...]
Existential terror!
In college, I had a lanky, long-haired roommate with a grin on loan from leprechauns. He’d bound through our dormitory [...]
Cave-car Rome
A cardiologist is interrupted mid-visit with a patient by an incoming call she says she must take. The electrocardiogram is [...]
Fraternal heretics
My ailing plumber resides in one of Dante’s less agreeable “new normal” cellars. He is desperately ill with liver cancer [...]
Ash to ash
In the years before his death earlier this year at the age of 89, my erudite brother had turned away [...]
On a stalled planet
One friend, an influential member of European mass media, bemoans the disappearance of what he calls “fluidity.” Another, far younger [...]
Sogni d’oro
In a dream, I kissed a woman. Not once or twice or as part of a seduction but as a [...]
Author

Christopher P. Winner
Paris-born Christopher P. Winner began his long journalistic career as sports editor of the now-defunct Rome Daily American in 1975.