2022
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Existential terror!
If day elicits terror, night is a singular horror show. In college, I had a lanky, long-haired roommate with a…
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Coffee with glaucoma
Coffee, a simple enough drink to make… if you can see what you’re doing. At the end of the carpeted…
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Radio days
Celebrated radio broadcaster Harry Caray in his St. Louis Cardinals days. Among the plethora of crannies on the web is…
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The Ukraine sandlot
Think mature, adult leaders are either mature or adult? Not when they start fighting… Abully with outsized delusions of long-gone…
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On Pope Francis and war
Pope Francis: rarely, if ever, confrontational, which now works against him. In most of the West, Pope Francis I is…
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The Day of the Puma
Acclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini on the set of “La Strada,” a film about a circus troupe, released in 1954.…
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When the U.S. played God
John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, two brothers who changed the world — but not in a pretty way. Beware…
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Words from the darkness
A close up of the human eye by Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan. It has been ten days since my seventeenth…
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Italian pocket change
No more credit cards? The latest Italian government — and in Italy, “latest” seems apt, since government can be as…
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Suicide blonde
Snow covered Lviv, in western Ukraine — not a cozy holiday destination, but not quite as dangerous as made out…
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A husband too far
Quick-take snapshots and hastily faxed letters were only part of the story. Birthdays feed on ghosts. Sifting through an antique…
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The spirit of Catanzaro
The ancient city of Catanzaro is home to some of the best eye surgeons. Italy has long been modern Europe’s…
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Toward the revival of diplomacy
Diplomacy has, unfortunately, become associated with appeasement; yet it is an absolute necessity in a global world. A war is…
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