May 25, 2026 | Rome, Italy

Chump

For a large number of early days on the planet I wished only to live in cloud cuckoo land. Even [...]

Get help!

Many of my friends and acquaintances are in some form of psychotherapy. Most are Americans between 20 and 40, though [...]

Irreversible

Smartphones and human eyes share a common downside; they both require power sources. For the eyes, that source is neuro-cellular [...]

Hose

My youthful world was one in which no one "passed," let alone "passed away." They either "faded away," as Gen. [...]

The last Gandalf

The old ambassador had me at “hoodwinked.” When he added “bamboozled” and “railroaded,” I was in Seventh Heaven, as always [...]