W e are now officially in the post-ferragosto dog days of summer. The kind of days where, if you walk outside to get the paper or the mail...

“Start as a dishwasher. Become a salesman. Exit as an accountant. Sunset as ambassador. QED” – Joseph Spellman, M.S. I read the quote a...

Festina Lente S teadfast upon this sweltering little orb in the universe, rotating in 24 hours at 1,000 limes per hour, moving around a s...

Ex ante W alking along a hiking path, on the edge of the continent and from the neighboring country to the south, the longtimer came upo...

T here’s a bit of the old Zen when walking among the ancient living ones on our continent in the Pacific Northwest. One is that we humans,...

A mericans still want to go to Italy – in fact more of them are going than ever before. And so I have been getting more than my share of q...

Un po' pasquinata, per piacere God, Guns and BBQ - That's what makes America Great! T he lawn chairs are gathered, the Roman c...

F or those whose families emigrated from Italy over 100 years ago, it is a secure bet that we still identify with our roots. In the U.S., ...