On our first trip to Rome as a married couple, we took a city bus to visit my aunt and uncle in a part of the city that was unfamiliar to me. When we descended from the bus, we were unsure of where to find the street we needed (this was on the eve of […]
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!
5. To Stay or To Go
As a young, newly-married man in southern Italy, my father became a tenant farmer. He rented a large plot of land from a prominent member of a patrician family based near Florence. With only a zappa (a wide-bladed hoe), my dad, joined by his brothers and a couple of day laborers, cleared roots, grasses, weeds, […]
4. A Tap on the Shoulder
A buddy of mine whom I’ve known since I was very small was hospitalized a few day ago. He just died of the virus that’s ravaging the Earth. Another friend is on a respirator, in the fight of her life against cancer. In the last 10 years or so I’ve lost many friends and cousins […]
3. Crossed-Signals, Misunderstandings, and Other Illusions
Have you ever been fond of a song that you Thought you knew the lyrics to, only to find out – sometimes years later – that the words were not quite how you sang them? I was on a snack run with some friends when the Stevie Nicks song Stand Back played over the store’s […]
2. On the Road to …
My sister was driving me in her old cinquecento (Fiat 500) to a new doctor in Naples, and she was unfamiliar with the city. She had never driven there, and if you know Naples, you know how big, congested, and confusing it is. I’ve never driven, so the best I could do was read the […]
1. Circles Just Happen
Ever feel like no matter what you do, what you want or how hard you try, you only go round and round in circles? Well, I do that when I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do. First few times it happened in front of my wife, she tilted her head and scrunched her face. […]
ANTON CIRCLES HIS WORLD 