A s we beat the month of August, once more, to death, September howls like a newborn that was cast away into a dumpster. No one hears her...

Y esterday a young friend called me from Italy. Not just anywhere in Italy, but one of my favorite places in Italy – San Benedetto del Tro...

E ver since I have been decamping to Italy, almost 50 years now, the middle of August (Ferragosto) signaled a time to recharge, rest, play...

#TBT - from the archives T here are aspects to life that don’t travel so well on the road. One of them is the lack of interaction with c...

“All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden W hat are we looking for? Whether it is in a vineyard or a desert? In a lover ...

" Gone to look for America " T he assistant at the hotel reception desk in Farmington was Navaho. He bore familiar marks of hi...

"Gone to look for America" D riving through the Texas Panhandle seemed interminable. Speed up, slow down, pass through a littl...

I t must have been on the last leg of my road trip around America, when I realized the Italy I was missing was passing by me at 75 miles an ...

Going off the grid for a bit. Nothing's wrong, just need to step away from the world and dip my pole in cooler waters - the rods hav...

From the archives “There is a crack between the two worlds.” – Don Juan Matus I n time, the perception of things as they are and as t...

W ell, here we are. Some of us are alone. Some of us are riding this out with others, maybe our loved ones, friends, family. It doesn’t lo...

Dateline June 16, 2080 – Father’s Day D ear great-great grandfather, I am writing this to you (or it is meant to seem like writing) be...

T he times have a way of changing what one thought was important, once upon a time. Now, more than ever, the highly charged and emotional ...

T he longest period of time that passed between trips to Italy was in 1997. I hadn’t been back since 1992. Now, it has been a little more ...

D uring this down time, I’ve had the opportunity to go through boxes and papers, organizing my office. One of the packets I ran across wer...