Welcome

I want to warmly welcome you to my “article archive” web site!

I published my first article in 1990, a piece called “Career Day for Mystics.” From then till now, I’ve published many more — in dozens of magazines, journals, and newsletters in the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, UK, Ireland, Nova Scotia, and, of course, cyberspace-based on-line magazines. I’ve seen a few of my pieces translated into Japanese, Romanian, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, and French. That’s always fun: I wonder what I said and how I sound in those languages.

Many articles have disappeared from my hard drive over the years, due to various cleansings, purgings, earthquakes, crashes, transformations, etc. I suspect the dog even ate one or two. I’ve posted the survivors on this site, grouped under headings that reflect my interest, project, or assignment of that time.

I have also posted commissioned essays for anthologies, a selection of transcriptions from talks and interviews, and the scripts of two audio products I created. All together, this material represents one expression of my life to date.

The photo at the top is of Porto Venere, a wonderful, charming Italian village on the Mediterranean, south of Cinque Terre and Genoa. I love Italy and all things Italian. I grew up in Torino and Milano. One of my sisters, Sandra, was born in Livorno. I would love to live, for a couple of weeks at least, as Alberto Tomba, the great skier, or Roberto Baggio, the wonderful striker for the Italian national soccer team — being adored by some 58 million Italians. Is there a people on earth who can savor living, create beauty, and express warmth better than the Italians? I can not think of a more beautiful place than Lago di Como, which is where I want to live for most of eternity. Thus my selection of this photo, as my homage to Italy and my persistent fantasy life.

Article Reprint License
I hereby grant permission to anyone to copy, distribute, or publish any of my articles, providing you include the following copyright notice and tag line:
 

Please do not copy, distribute, or publish any material from the Anthologies section of this web site, as the publishing rights belong to other people.

Thank you for visiting. Enjoy your life. It’s a marvellous treasure.


Robert