Early sexual experiences are often more bewildering than exciting, particularly around squirrels.

There’s a rose petal in a mauve envelope which held up to scrutiny, dissolves.

In Rome, cajoling prescription pharmaceuticals is a Japanese art form.

Irreverence insulted and radicalism gone, this is the age of recycled mission statements.

The church has no magneto salesman advertising a tiny coil that is as probably essential as it is possibly unimportant.

Three anecdotes to keep the Tuscan sun from shining too brightly in your dreams.

Sperm over 50, conclude doctors who study such things, loses eagerness and

It’s easy to take a swipe at the hyperlink generation, much harder to talk in terms of paradise lost.

Try hard enough and you’ll find out the hard way that you can’t go home again.

In an interview that never took place, some sound bites on soccer violence.

Valentine’s Day 1999. But before that, a prime minister, a pope, and a dying king.