Monthly Archives: April 2021

Young J. Edgar Hoover was tapping his desk with the eraser end of a sharpened pencil; it was habitual when he was feeling agitated.  And J. Edgar was agitated. He kept staring at the picture in front of him and … Continue reading →

Coloring Easter Eggs at Grandpa’s House Like my Etch-A-Sketch? Lunch with Mommy Indian food!  Yum! Hat Day at school! Disney!  Me, Cousin Freddie and Uncle Martin Daddy, Uncle Martin, Cousin Michael, Me, Freddie and Aunt Ginny.  There’s 3  lawyers in … Continue reading →

Is this my time or not? Time flows into a man makes its home there then flows away ; the man remains but his time has passed. There was a time when the world was mine and you were mine … Continue reading →

USS Theodore Roosevelt While confidence in almost every American institution has sharply declined, not so with the military. Confidence in our armed forces rose dramatically after 9/11 and remains high. This lack of connection with war and the military among … Continue reading →

Once upon a time when I was a young man in 1960 there was a lake – one of the four largest bodies of fresh water on earth. It was so large it was called a “sea” – the Aral … Continue reading →

  The cast of “Behind Closed Doors” opening tomorrow night at the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa. “Behind Closed Doors is an original play consisting of two acts with two scenes per act.  Each scene serves as a vignette that … Continue reading →

We  used to live by an ancient Roman road where chalk gave way to clay then to grandfather’s fertile garden,   lemon trees and vines. Now we walk in the footprint of the Legions passed the iron age fort toward the setting sun, … Continue reading →

Joann Marie Louise Romanelli-Scarangello June 3, 1945 -April 19, 2004 Coney Island   Senior Prom -June 1963 Cutting the cake – December 28, 1963 Heading for Bermuda On Board.  Vacations were free.  She worked fr the company. The birth of … Continue reading →

Well now that the covid pandemic seems to be subsiding in places where the population has sought and received vaccination, it seems we are getting back to normal in parts ofAmerica.  We are experiencing mass murder on a regular basis. … Continue reading →

Michael 1975 – 1985 Thinking of Michael today on what might have been his 46th birthday. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these;  It might have been.” She sits beneath a massive oak in the … Continue reading →