If you're a freelancer and work enters your life at its own pace, your local library (no, not Amazon) can enrich the passing days.

A summer vacation in New Hampshire feels like so many others until you realize its not a vacation at all.

The author arrived in Milan in 1992. Now, 25 years later, it's another city and another Italy. Or is it?

PBS had a golden opportunity to make World War I clear to a new generation, but forgot the fighting.

The author knew Charles "Chuck" Murphy in another life. Now, the one he knew is over.

Swimming in a Milan temple of fascism can help with the creative process, no tyranny required.

Pakistan, a country often pilloried by the West, affords one author with an oasis of energy.

Growing up in the U.S. Midwest, Christmas was a quirky mix of the vAnglo-Saxon and the Latin.

How the presence of a small dog in a hallowed place among new refugees can change night to day.

A trip to Verdun brings back the ghosts of one of the most lethal battles in human history.