by John Mancini | Sep 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
We’ve come a long way from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s goal of “flattening the curve” at the start of the China Virus pandemic. Regrettably, he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are leading the way to a flattening of the American spirit, instead. These two Italian...
by John Mancini | Sep 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Each September 11th will always remind us that our conflict with Islam has yet to be resolved. On 9/11, I was working in midtown-Manhattan when the planes struck in lower-Manhattan. I recall a comment I made at the time to a colleague that the disaster was...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Big Al with son Albert Francis, Chicago Tribune “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away,” General Douglas MacArthur famously noted in a speech to the U.S. Congress on April 19th, 1951. This dictum certainly isn’t true for old Italian...
by John Mancini | Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Like many of you, I tend a vegetable garden in the Italian tradition with the goal of preserving the harvest, not merely consuming it fresh. Planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, caging, staking, weeding, mulching, watering, and fertilizing even on a small...
by John Mancini | Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
This week, a fanatic at the Kabul Airport chose to annihilate himself and 108 innocent people, including thirteen American military members, in the name of Allah “the Compassionate, the Merciful.” Akin to human sacrifice, suicide bombings have always appalled...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Aug 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita…” begins the opening line of L’Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s three-part literary epic, La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy). It’s a line every Italian student can recite by...
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