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  THE ARROYO CAFÉ & MARGARET’S FAMOUS HOMEMADE PIES Knowing very few Spanish words besides “Hasta la vista”, (sometimes with the Anglo word “baby” added), I guessed Arroyo was a Spanish family name which adorned [...]

SOCIALISM – MY VERY LIMITED EXPERIENCE & A FEW THOUGHTS   1945 -  The end of World War II, and I turn six years old.  For a kid that age, I was probably a little [...]

3/10/19 MOSAICS WITH ROSANO – A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Artful Mosaics – Comments and Early Reviews (some appear on AMAZON and BARNES & NOBLE)    I have that book, and Oh. My. Gosh. Is. [...]

On my 1960 scooter trip across the US, mid-afternoon somewhere near Manchester, Kentucky, I pulled into the dirt parking lot of a small, well-worn café for a cup of coffee. A six stool counter was [...]

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CREATING ARTFUL MOSAICS My mosaic book is available.   Mostly a "how-to" for mosaic beginners. There are quite a number of "extras'' included, but the ‘How-To” part is a printed version of [...]

Note:  This is one of eight "Cultural Moments" included in my book MOSAICS WITH ROSANO - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CREATING ARTFUL MOSAICS.  Copies of this and other of my books can be purchased by [...]

    Note:  This is one of eight "Cultural Moments" included in my book MOSAICS WITH ROSANO - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO CREATING ARTFUL MOSAICS.  Copies of this and other of my books can be [...]

MOSAIC CLASSES - BASIC INFO ... flexible scheduling allows the beginning student to start at any time.  Use my email aprosano@gmail.com or Facebook private message or my phone 520-297-3606  Here is preliminary class info: If [...]

TOUGH LITTLE LADY In 1960 I drove an Italian motorscooter across much of the US.  Some 55 years later, in 2015 I wrote of that crazy journey in “Scoot Across the USA”, a book published [...]

        HONOR YOUR WORD By Aureleo Rosano 9/29/2016   Instilled in us as kids, was the idea of doing what you’ve said you would do.  Childhood stories and conversations with adults stressed [...]

SCOOT ACROSS THE USA – 32 – PARIS AND SEGREGATION Waking up in Gainesville, TX in the middle of May is not so bad, I thought.  With a little effort, and a little time, there [...]

Trying to recall events, circumstances, and impressions from 55 years before is a challenge. In 1960 I drove an Italian motor scooter from Tucson (near the border of Mexico) in Southern Arizona on a zig-zag [...]

So … the decision was made to use the 1959 Lambretta to cross the USA from Tucson, AZ to Boston, MA, a map distance of 2500 miles.   Of course, preparations are necessary.  One doesn’t just [...]

So this was Show Low, a small town, a popular summer recreation and resort area, but also an agricultural and logging center.   Pine trees were everywhere, big pines and little ones.   I had traveled about [...]

The mobile home (in my mind they were still called ‘trailers’) had two bedrooms, the furthest aft was fair-sized with two full-sized mattresses on the floor and a walking ‘path’ at the foot end of [...]

  On the road again, out of Denver, south along Route 85 or is it 87, but this time with a pretty passenger.  Heading to Colorado Springs, the Lambretta behaving well as always.  We would [...]

Waking up in Gainesville, TX in the middle of May is not so bad, I thought.  With a little effort, and a little time, there would be life-saving coffee available.  My companion was still sleeping.  [...]

In my sleep, in the middle of the night, there was vague awareness of Stella being up, moving around, doing things, and then being back in my arms.   Later, struggling to wake, I knew she [...]

It had rained sometime during the night in Vicksburg.   Hearing the sound of rain on the tarp told me it was a gentle rain.  Having taken two or three aspirins before trying to sleep had [...]

Sometimes, morning arrives when you least expect it.  Looking out the wallet-sized window of the small motel cabin, there was some light in the sky which meant I had slept eight or nine hours.  Stomach [...]

In my tent, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the woods, in the middle of Indiana, I was awake and I was alone … not lonely, alone.  Traveling across the US [...]

Jacksonville, Florida had become the 80% mark of my journey, the end of the fourth leg of five … first: from Tucson, Arizona to Denver, Colorado, second: (unplanned and spur-of-the-moment) from Denver to New Orleans, [...]

MY JOURNEY AS A VOTER As a child and then a teenager, I grew up under two fine Presidents … Democrat Harry S. Truman, followed by a Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Ike”.   To me, then, [...]

BEING ALONE In my tent, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the woods, in the middle of Indiana, I was awake and I was alone … not lonely, alone.  Traveling across [...]

OKTOBERFEST TRADE DEAL In the middle 1960’s, at Oktoberfest in Munich, I was involved in an unusual trade transaction (at least by Western standards).  My first time visiting Europe, I was in my mid-twenties.  Fueled [...]

THE CONFESSION 1945 – In Connecticut, almost six years of age, I was being ‘trained’ to be a good Roman Catholic boy.  One part of that training was studying the Latin necessary to serve mass [...]

Reader's Note:  Having relived this story a few hundred times over the years, I still laugh every time.  Then a question arises, given that the big sin had already been committed, the big sin of [...]

SEPARATION AT THIRTEEN Traveling with a friend, talking of many diverse topics.   She asked me about the bravest thing I had ever done.  Not knowing the bravest thing I had ever done, I did know [...]

CATECHISM CATACLYSM – A Tough Time - Optimum Outcome Reader’s Note:  This essay (with a few minor changes) first appeared in Chapter 15 of SCOOT ACROSS THE USA, my account of a 1960 zig- zag [...]

BICYCLE TRIALS They were almost 5 years old.  All three of them.  My triplet sons and It Was Time ... time to learn to ride a bicycle. Twenty years before, when I was in my [...]

SUPERMAN & ME Traveling across the USA in 1960 on a 1959 Lambretta motor scooter (similar to the more famous Vespa).  I stopped at the library in London, Kentucky where there were a number of [...]

COFFEE AND ME In 2015, on Facebook, an image of my mosaic self-portrait entitled RESEARCH was posted.  In the comments I mentioned I would  discuss the coffee cup appearing in the scene. THIRTY-FIVE  YEARS AGO, [...]

WORLD WAR II - RECOLLECTIONS OF A CHILD   Born May 1939, a year or two before the US entered World War II as an active participant, and as a consequence I have little to [...]

IMPORTANT TIMES WITH MOM – A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE My parents lived in Connecticut and were married for seven decades.   My father, so intelligent and kind and patient, was an absolute prince.  Everybody loved my [...]

Take a peek at this.  Interesting process which I'll talk about soon.   https://youtu.be/wDZDWSavFzg

CREATIVE MIND   “Why can’t you be like everybody else?”   We, all of us, are creative people. There are infinite shades of color and intensity.  Some people are orderly in their creativity, others are [...]