MONDO PULEO

Tutto Cambia, Tutto Resta... Una Pietra E' Sempre Una Pietra All things appear to change. Yet, I am doing what I did. Only differently....

It is often said that we learn everything in kindergarten. Maybe not everything. I learned an everlasting lesson in fifth grade. That...

For a long time, Sicilians used the carrettu sicilianu to carry goods of all sorts. One day, under unusual circumstances, it was adopted...

In our visceral impetus to give meaning to our temporal existence, more often than none, we distort our perception of reality to add...

In my mind, a recurrent image of death is that of a five-year-old girl dressed in all white communion dress lying still in an open casket...

As a kid, I had a 'gut feeling' about resveratrol's benefits derived from Vitis Vinifera. I didn’t want to wait until I became an adult...

When it comes to love, humans prefer exclusivity. Yet, ‘true love’ must be shared. As we journey on mother earth, we begin our ascent to...

Why You Should Still Care About 'Bicycle Thieves,'' by A.O. Scott, on August 13, 2020 in the New York Times rekindled my pride. After...

Not a Dialogue With Plato In an age where social distancing is the norm, and we find refuge in virtual caves, it is comforting to know...

Pasqualino ‘Spaccalegna’ ‘Wood Splitter’ What? Chi ti ha interpellato? Who Asked You? Why? Terrone! Dirty Southerner… How? Guinea! (What...

A frequent picture in my mind is that of Padre Settineri, a mentor for all the children loitering his presbytery looking to fill a dull...

The product of our life experiences is shaped by our choices and pre-designed by the ethics of our upbringing. My embroidery has taken...

In the times of Covid-19, we are receiving the gift of time. The time to ‘Know Thyself,’ as simply put by Socrates. Yet, ‘knowing...

In ‘Il Gattopardo,’ The Leopard, by Tomasi di Lampedusa, Tancredi tells the uncle, “Tutto deve cambiare affinche’ tutto resti uguale,”...

It wasn’t the best of times growing up in Sicily in the 50’s. To make ends meet, my father would take me to my mom’s olive groves in...

Z as an ending (see the last letter of the alphabet in Semitic languages. Z as a ‘vigilante’ as portrayed by the mythical hero Zorro. Z...

Much has changed along the Charles River stretch downriver toward Boston. The waterfalls muffle the surrounding with the sound of the...

Our life's ultimate ambition is survival since life itself is pre-determined with an irrevocable expected end. To do so, we must co-exist...

Curious about when learning takes place at its best, I stumbled in Chatti, M. A., Jarke, M, & Specht’s article, ‘The 3P Learning Model,’...