We have all gotten lost at one time or another. It usually happens when we are in a location that is completely unfamiliar. We may be looking for a particular address or a street that will lead us back in the direction we want. A hiker may be looking for a trail that leads out […]
Author: e.e. mazier
Writer, former journalist and attorney based in New Jersey. Check out her just (Oct. 2025) released novel, Johnny Moon and the Black Dog Queen, on Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions. She is an award-winning short-story writer, and her play Morrison, about Jim Morrison of the Doors, had a successful off-off Broadway showcase in 2001. She is also the author of The Complete Guide to Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, Fourplexes, and Mobile Homes: What Smart Investors Need To Know Explained Simply. Excerpts of Call and Echo, her collaboration with Georgia-based artist P. Casey Sheppard, were displayed at the former New Jersey Library for the Blind and Handicapped. Please note that, in Jan. 2026, the price of the paperback will increase to meet requirements for Expanded Distribution. Buy before Jan. 1 to beat the price increase!
15. I Was Profiled as a Terrorist
Profiling is a tool used by law enforcement agencies “to catch the bad guys,” as they like to tell us. I don’t know how useful profiling is, but from first-hand experience I do know that it is an incredibly easy way to make mistakes and target innocent people. I started visiting my younger sister in […]
14. The War of the Role Models
Recently, my wife asked me if I had any role models as I was growing up in Italy. The concept of “role model” is new to me, so I said no. She pressed on: “Are you sure there wasn’t someone in your life, or even a character from a TV show, whom you admired or […]
13. Our Mothers
Until almost the end of her life, my mother-in-law did not like me and did not accept me as part of the family. She thought of me as a good-for-nothing who married her daughter solely to exploit her. As if my wife would put up with fools and moochers! My wife always said that it […]
12. Sickly Green
Envy is described as a grudge fueled by the coveting of someone else’s qualities, possessions, or stature in life. Envy probably has existed for as long as humans have. Remember Cain and Abel? And, while coveting is prohibited in the Ten Commandments, since about the Third Century A.D., envy has been known as one of […]
11. When the Past Finds You
Every now and then the past – in the form of a person – catches up with us. When it does, will the experience be nostalgic, embarrassing, or poignant? My wife’s first trip to Montréal was memorable in many ways. She went as part of a group of students organized by their college’s French Department, […]
10. The North/South Divide
As an Italian national who lives outside of Italy, I am like an eagle in an aerie, able to watch what is happening throughout my homeland. And let me admit, right off the bat, that I am biased in favor of my beloved Southern Italy. I’m not the first to notice that one effect of […]
9. Ghost Stories
Neither my wife nor I place much stock in the supernatural. Me, I prefer to believe in things I can see and experience firsthand. I know people who are convinced that they have encountered ghosts. Most of these people are reasonable and ordinary, going about their everyday lives as best they can. Some of them […]
8. How Many Homes?
One phenomenon of living in the U.S. that has struck me is how mobile its people are. In particular, I am amazed at how often people move from one home to another. In the U.S. there is a strong sense that changing homes is a forward motion, a progression. In Italy, particularly in the south, […]
7. Chicken
My mother kept chickens on our farm for many years. They provided us with fresh eggs every day and the occasional Sunday main course. Our farm was at the foot of a mountain on which sits a famous religious sanctuary. Quite a few visitors from others parts of Italy and beyond used to drive up […]
ANTON CIRCLES HIS WORLD 