When you become her
I usually avoid mirrors. But one caught me unawares the other day. To my surprise, the person in I saw [...]
The mind traveler
The last 12 months have been no time for travel, with 2021 looking not much better. To avoid quarantine regulations, [...]
Don’t call me Trump
During his successful 2016 run for the White House, and well into the early part of his presidency, Donald Trump [...]
On art and Elders
Some years ago, President Barack Obama ruffled feathers when he used art history as an example of an unproductive — [...]
Parsing a Republican past
I grew up in Rockford, Illinois, in shouting distance of free-market guru Milton Friedman’s Chicago. The “Paleo-conservative” movement, focused largely [...]
Turn, turn, turn
It was a few days ago that I noticed it in the garden. Welcomed by the sun's heat, flashes of [...]
Forwarding the past
Last tine around I wrote about the pain of performing triage on a lifetime of possessions and my fear that [...]
The name of the past
Three years ago I packed up the contents of my Milan home and moved back to the United States. For [...]
The garment district
As restrictions on lockdowns lift, those who have enjoyed the last few months in perpetual pajamas or sweatpants may be [...]
10 minuti dentro un bar anni 70
Some sketchy amateur footage shot in an Italian bar in the 1970s stirs up nostalgia for columnist Madeleine Johnson.
Gold in a strange time
From her American vantage point, columnist Madeleine Johnson hails Italy's virus resolve and wishes she were in Milan to help.
Repairing to The Repair Shop
You can't always get what you want, wrote The Rolling Stones. But thanks to the BBC, columnist Madeleine Johnson found the next best thing.