“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.“

Sophia Villiani Scicolone was born September 20th, 1934, in Rome and grew up in the small town of Pozzuoli near Naples, to unwed parents, just prior to the outbreak of WW2. Rising from severe poverty and anonymity in a divided Europe [...]

The details of Lindsay Dee Lohan’s problems with the law are far less important than how this talented actress, who first came to the public attention as a child star of the Disney remake “The Parent Trap“, developed her drug problem and how celebrity impacted on it. Assuming this perspective, no one is excusing her [...]

In a certain state of mind, I would call death, the other side of life. That division certainly conforms to what we are collectively taught: life in whatever form is somewhat corporeal, and as implied in my previous essays, perceivable. It’s not to say that life doesn’t exist beyond those boundaries, but as a finite [...]

I wish that I had a greater appreciation for music. Two of my best friends have made it their life’s work.
The incomparable The Undah-Dub, a cool guy with a melodic voice that has a musical rhythm all his own, that betrays the inner essence of a DJ. He has the understanding of the “Music Of [...]

As I get bored with the infinite channels that cable TV affords, I have become a hopeless “flipper”. Sitting in front of the TV, eyes open in almost mindless stupor, as my finger presses the button to surf up and down the channel lineup. Having approximately 900+ of them, I can go for the whole [...]

“The Untold Want
By Life And Land Ne’er Granted,
Now Voyager,
Sail Thou Forth To Seek And Find.”
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

When young, everyone is older. Things around us seem much more established. Life appears as something we need to grow into for acceptance. Challenges are there to teach in a slow, steady, revealing way what the world [...]

I’m not sure that Geo-Ethno-Centricity is a real word but I like the way it sounds, so I’m going to use it as the title of this essay.
It’s been very perplexing to consider why the United States has fallen into so many stupid conflicts over recent years. Perhaps it’s the leaders it has picked [...]

A room of unknown purpose
Lamenting to be perceived
Empty, with potential,
Reflected memory,
And needs long past.
Walls, with imprints of prior happenings
Recessed openings, arched windows
Revealing skyline, the urban landscape.
Towers of reflected sunlight
Gleaming in the morning sky
As apparitions, lights first glimmer
A ballet, on canvas floor
Revealed, multicolored, in poignant simplicity
Exposed anew, life’s hope.
An abode for absent phantasies
Obscured, within a maze [...]

If someone were to ask what you thought was the definitive fashion statement of all time. What would you think?
In a previous essay “On Fashion And Fashion Icons“, I suggested that the way people dress says a great deal about the society and the individual of the time by defining function, perhaps motive(s), certainly about [...]

Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix, directed by David Yates, screenplay by Michael Goldenberg, is the fifth movie in JK Rowlings‘ compelling seven part epic chronicling the coming of age of Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliff), the young wizard struggling to understand his emerging destiny as he deals with a myriad of emotions, set [...]