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 trek across much of the US on a Lambretta Motor Scooter. It appears in the blog section of my website: www.rosano.org [...]
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 twenties, I lived where the neighbors were of all colors, from all economic conditions, and of various educational levels. I was [...]
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 books featuring American Frontier hero, Daniel Boone. He was an extraordinary hunter, explorer, soldier and woodsman. The number of stories featuring [...]
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, during my annual physical examination at the doctor’s office, he casually asked me how many cups of coffee I drank each [...]
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 recall until 1942. I was aware however, that a lot of men were fighting somewhere – a place called Europe, and [...]
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 Dad … little kids, the very old, the neighbor’s dog, the other neighbor’s rabbit. Any creature with a heartbeat just gravitated [...]
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 disorganized. Some creative minds function in a controlled manner, others are overactive and chaotic. I can only speak to my personal [...]
SNOW WHITE + 7 The assignment in Italian class at the local community college was to write a new version of an old story. Snow White was my selection. I wrote this in Italian and then translated (almost word for word) into English. The result is a stilted or not-too-smooth reading in English (probably worse in [...]
DOT DOT DOT Being a sculptor and mosaicist, my time in the workshop is often the biggest part of the day. Perhaps a third of the work on any of my art pieces is rather routine … cutting large, beautiful pieces of glass into less usable, smaller pieces for mosaic work or grinding and polishing [...]
