Feb 25Member-onlyWhat do you get when you mix ChatGPT, Classical Latin and Associative Thinking ?Experiencing Latin from the Corner Pastry Shop -The ChatGPT Installment — ChatGPT is making headlines, positive and negative on a daily basis. And it has spurred some thinking on my end. Don’t know what ChatGPT is? Well, it is an A.I, an Artificial Intelligence, that is based on what researchers call a Large Language Model that is trained in “Natural Language…Chatgpt7 min readChatgpt7 min read
Feb 20Member-onlyThe Meaning of LENT DistilledWith less than a week to go , a eureka moment of understanding — Inspired by the Gospel Readings of February 19, 2023 I am embarrassed, perhaps even ashamed to state and recognize that it would taked me so long, close to a half a lifetime, to gain a more solid understanding of the meaning of Lent. This Sunday morning Monsignor Emeritus Alan Detscher’s…Catholicism4 min readCatholicism4 min read
Feb 11Member-onlyWhat will happen to our on-line photos, videos, and creative content when we are DEAD?Coming to Terms with Homo Digitalis and our on-line legacy — For a while now, I have been reflecting along with some friends, on the ever greater problem of ensuring that the vast amount of digital content that we create on a daily basis has a chance of being accurately preserved for posterity, and, bluntly put, surviving past the day we…Digital Life4 min readDigital Life4 min read
Feb 11Member-onlyMan is the measure of all things. Not !Time of reset, for some inner soul searching, a contemplative spin — I recently had dinner with a very good friend in the West Village of NYC. Yes, the West Village, a place that might not be well known for deep religious fervor. Maybe I am wrong, so don’t hold it against me for I don’t have much to base that on…Religion9 min readReligion9 min read
Feb 6Member-onlyDead Whales, Book Burning and The Next Presidential StrongmanWhy there still is a place for old fashion conservatism — Note: Consider listening to this article as an alternative to a Podcast Let’s start this discussion with exercise in building an historical context and do so by using a sorted series of themes manifest in American society, politics and current events that I have managed to collate into the following…Democracy19 min readDemocracy19 min read
Jan 1Member-onlyLessons in Italian-American ProfanityHow I limit my use of the more colorful expressions of old ethnic pride — [author’s warning: This post might contain offensive material. Read at your own discretion] The Italian-American experience is important. It is an important part of my life, character, my personal ethos. It brings together two worlds, an old world and newer one which is still trying to reinterpret an amalgam of…Profanity8 min readProfanity8 min read
Dec 30, 2022Member-onlyA much needed defense of the Right to being WokeThe latest ultra conservative strategy and battle to perpetuate systemic and latent racism — The words woke and Wokeism have been confusing me. They have entered our vernacular and they are easy to come by when listening to cable news, especially news of the kind that promotes very conservative views. These two words have even crossed our oceans, East and West, and now …Woke12 min readWoke12 min read
Dec 18, 2022Member-onlyWhy I writeThe cathartic escape away from our daily hyper accelerated urban world I recently met with some clients in a place where life is slightly slower than the hectic New York City suburbs, a place that is conveniently located in lower upstate New York where the feel is more rural, and…Catskills8 min readCatskills8 min read
Dec 11, 2022Member-onlyMy Life in the “Village Piazza” seen through adolescent eyesA European dream of a different kind Inspired by recent comments made on an Medium.com on European apartment living [1] I am, more than ever, missing Italy, and my old village life in ways that just 3 years ago I could barely imagine. I miss my adolescent experience to the…Village Life9 min readVillage Life9 min read
Dec 4, 2022Member-onlyForest Bathing in Greenwich CTLeveraging the Meditative Power of Small Parks It is a miserable, rainy day today. Overcast, low fifties and an up and down, on and off annoying damp drizzle soaking coat and cap. What more perfect day to turn back time to a warm sunny day of early Autumn and reflect…Forest Bathing9 min readForest Bathing9 min read
