Bristol Over the years, I’ve been to Sicily a number of times. It’s a wonderful place in so many ways with a generous people, unmatched virtually anywhere in the world. Palermo, the Simeto Valley, Paterno, and another towns and cities across the island have all welcomed me, but nowhere more than Catania. Over …
Katrina at 20
Catania Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans on September 9, 1965, days after I had begun my senior year in high school. Those were the old days when school didn’t start until after Labor Day. The night the hurricane came, our whole family stayed, along with others, in the city’s central business district on the …
Bullies Need a Bogey Man
Catania This was creepy. Last night meeting in the early evening with two comrades and supporters who have long worked to bring ACORN to Sicily, as it does inevitably, the question finally came at me, asking what were Americans doing “about Trump.” It was déjà vu all over again. We had just been talking …