God is spirit and the human body represents how He wanted to house our spirit. Walking up to the world’s most famous statue, David by...

Dwarfed by the magnificence of The Duomo of Florence, I am not so much humbled by this massive edifice as I am of two Texan ladies who...

Rainy long lines outside a church must spell passion among the faithful… Actually, we were tourists waiting to get into Venice’s famed...

Venezia from my airplane window didn't tell the whole story. “The map is not the territory” was the favorite expression of my semantics...

We treat the dark lightly. Spiritual “attacks” are often poo-pooed by those who don’t recognize they or someone else is under it. This...

Choosing Italy’s time and expense over being tied to the desk seems like a no-brainer…until one actually tries to bust loose and jump on...

What was I thinking when I booked a trip to Italy during upstate New York’s peak foliage season? All of my life, I’ve wanted to go to the...

It was Paula’s birthday with John’s soon to follow and Lucille’s right behind that. Mom and Dad always made a big thing out of our...

Stopped by to have a chat with my parents. Their gravestone is placed below some pines in what seems to be the kinder part of the...

Went back to the old homestead. Pulled out the iPhone. Click, click. Rode by Jeff Stopper’s house and Pat Mannion’s place and the...

It is no more… My boyhood Green Brook Swim Club was home to so many summer memories for this New Jersey native. It’s been bulldozed and...

I’m putting the pool to bed for the fall and winter and I notice that there is a quarter on the side of the pool. It’s the same one that...

Summer's close and clothes went out on September 22. But we don’t need to shut the door on summer memories. For those who don’t like...

Some mourn September’s surrender. They notice leaves in the pool, on the driveway and maybe even some deadheads in the flower boxes. But...

The lawn looked a kid with a mop of hair that hadn’t had a haircut in several month. September snuck up on me and produced a lavish...

September is the most popular month for weddings and the buzzer-beater for a Summer rite…I couldn’t miss an old 1949 Buick Dynaflow just...