Month: June 2025

IS TRAVEL BROADENING?

It has been said “Travel is Broadening”…as I look at many of the tourists in our little town I would say ‘Broadening’ often happens before one travels. Americans, Germans, French – even some Canadians…some of them have Broadened before they […]

IT IS A FAR, FAR WORSER THING HE DO, THAN HE HATH EVER DONE

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power.” – Julius Caesar…Later, he said “Et Tu Brute?” ———————- I’m creating a novel…”It was not the best of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch […]

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA

So. I have been living in Tuscany for the past few years. Trying to write; not the ‘Great American Novel’ but simply to put out a weekly ‘Blog’ and connect with… with I don’t know who (whom?)  exactly…or why I’m […]

BAD THINGS TO THOSE WHO BAD THINGS THINKETH!

Here is what I have learned: If you want to get someone’s attention: Show her or him a picture of an animal..better a happy animal…after that you have a chance of telling them something you want to say… I read […]

IT’S ALL TALK, TALK – AND THEN SOME

This is a photo of people talking…on the phone, to each other, to themselves…sometimes it helps… “ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY” – David Sedaris, quote: “Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it’s […]