Monthly Archives: June 2018

Into the mail box the cards are delivered, angels, a manger, the star and a lamb as the rural carrier makes her rounds listening to the plaintive sounds the bleats of sheep the clopping of camels the shuffle of sandals … Continue reading →

So you run a family pizza joint in Podunk and as an astute small business man you know that to increase your income you must either sell more pizzas to your existing clientele (by, for example, creating “new” pizzas, modifying … Continue reading →

It has been interesting here in America watching the response of our pols and the population in general to the acts of “incivility” of those “radical leftists” publicly confronting officials of the emperor’s court. Oh!  It’s just terrible!  Trump official’s … Continue reading →

Absent fathers, bored mothers Wild daughters Bourgeoisie bedrooms Nosferatu has come from Mexico to rape your wife Utopias and horrors Ghosts and martyrs Authority; conformity uniform insanity Fascists and Communists Psychiatrists, Psychologists The dictator is already present carrying out master’s … Continue reading →

For two score years you cared for the children,  Maurice the poodle Millie the dachshund Trixie the cat in that order; refrigerator magnets neatly in a line, places we had been or our daughter had been missing London straying not … Continue reading →

The Red Hen Restaurant Well it’s been another fun week here in America, Land of the Free, yadayadayada. The whole world watched us separate kids from Central American refugee parents coming to our southern border fleeing the violence in El … Continue reading →

It is the Spring of 1964, Lyndon Banes Johnson is President and 22 year old Toritto is in the Army.  LBJ had become President on November 22, 1963 with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Johnson was a Democrat – … Continue reading →

Me and my maternal grandfather Carmelo during the war years. I was a lucky boy. I had parents who loved and cared for me and my two brothers. I was never hungry or homeless. We always had food on our … Continue reading →

Well it certainly has been an interesting week here in America as we watched Donald Trump fold like a beach chair in the face of tumultuous protest over his policy of separating children, including toddlers, from the parents of “immigrants” … Continue reading →

Soldier sitting by the door riding the bus in ’64 just two and twenty he was then going away till God knows when riding a bus through Massachusetts as the snow began to fall the bus pulled in to a … Continue reading →