Category Archives: Magic

The 10 Unanswerables

According to the Old Testament Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets inscribed with 17 Commandments. the ex-son of the pharoah was the only man in the crowd that could read, except Yahweh didn’t write in Egyptian. At least according to the Charlton Heston version of THE TEN COMMANDMENT. There could have been [...]

Number Phenomena

In 1975 New York’s diminutive mayor asked the federal government to aid the city. Its coffers had been depleted by the fiscal short besetting every American metropolis after the 1973 Gas Crisis. President Ford refused any assistance and the NY Daily News infamously shamed Washington with the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. The city [...]

The Longevity of Women

Ella shows up late for her date. My Uncle Carmine had a theory that the reason for the longevity of women was due to the fact that the opposite sex makes men wait for them and every minute and hour of a man’s waiting is stored within a genetic code of a woman’s body. In [...]

If Only I Could

If only I could go back in time, it wouldn’t be to see Rome at its might or right all my wrongs. My destination would be wherever Charlotte Rampling was in this photo. Heaven or hell wouldn’t matter to me. She was an angel.

Winter’s Rainbow

My baby brother died on AIDS in 1995. My mother succumbed to cancer in 1996. I mourned their passing with a circumnavigation of the globe. Every holy site on the route was my destination; Luang Prabang, Zhongdian, Lhasa, Benares et al. My soul was washed by the waters of the holiest rivers in the world, [...]