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 [...]
Some forty May moons ago, when balding Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi held monied sway over suddenly booming Italy and [...]
In most of the West, Pope Francis I is facing furious media and public indignation for his unwillingness to openly [...]
A bully with outsized delusions of long-gone glory invades his now independent but one-time fiefdom to the south because it [...]
Among the plethora of crannies on the web is a section called “Classic Baseball Radio Broadcasts.” Contained here are more [...]
Birthdays feed on ghosts. Sifting through an antique chest I come upon the 86-page manuscript of a play written by [...]
At the end of the carpeted corridor is a tall step that leads into the kitchen. Remember this well. Memorize [...]
In college, I had a lanky, long-haired roommate with a grin on loan from leprechauns. He’d bound through our dormitory [...]
A cardiologist is interrupted mid-visit with a patient by an incoming call she says she must take. The electrocardiogram is [...]
My ailing plumber resides in one of Dante’s less agreeable “new normal” cellars. He is desperately ill with liver cancer [...]
In the years before his death earlier this year at the age of 89, my erudite brother had turned away [...]
One friend, an influential member of European mass media, bemoans the disappearance of what he calls “fluidity.” Another, far younger [...]