The Story of a Man and His Pen
I am a writer and I have always been a writer. I started writing as a child. The fourth grade is the first time that I recall taking pleasure in writing. Our classes turned to creative writing and we could write about anything we wanted. Sometimes I chose my childhood fantasies of being a battleship captain or a sailing ship captain. Later in school, my writing became more academic. Reports, the effects of of the Russian winter on Napoleon’s conquest of Russia, what happened with the Spanish Armada of 1588, you know the work. Classic history. After that, it was service in they Navy, marriage, divorce, and back to figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up. My First Montblanc I started writing again in the late 1990s. A present I received was a Montblanc Noblesse Oblige. It was the smoothest writer instrument I had ever had…
I am a writer and I have always been a writer. I started writing as a child. The fourth grade is the first time that I recall taking pleasure in writing. Our classes turned to creative writing and we could write about anything we wanted. Sometimes I chose my childhood fantasies of being a battleship…
Once upon a time, I was a pizza-eating, beer-drinking kind of guy. I stopped drinking beer a while back but that’s a different story. I grew up with a bunch of Italians so eating pasta was mandatory, yum! Italian food is still my favorite category today. But one day, something happened that changed how I…
PHOTO CREDIT: This photo is from the Rolling Stone article “Remembering the Victims of the Lewiston, Maine Mass Shooting that can be found here: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lewiston-maine-shooting-victims-1234863628/ In November of 2020, right after the lock downs that redefined our economy and our lives, an internet friend of mine and I decided to take our relationship to a…