Finding The Fountain of Youth: My Personal Beatlemania

By Robert J. Ottaviani Beatlemania 1964 I’ve just seen THE BEATLES. I’ve just seen THE BEATLES. I watched them stride on stage one-by-one sporting their trademark dark pegged pants tucked neatly inside their Beatle boots while a neatly tailored buttoned suit coat with a nehru collar framed their slender shoulders while wagging their mopped haired [...]

Life Lessons Via Bert

By Robert J. Ottaviani Parents are not like free refills. You have one set, drink them slowly You may love, be loved, and be in love but you will never fully understand love. It is far too complex, mercurial and has layer after layer of depth. It is both vast and infinite and forever challenging. [...]

6 Types of People

Which Are You? By Robert J. Ottaviani I believe that there are six types of people who interact with each other on this earth. They are as follows: THE ONE UPPERS: We have all encountered these types along the way. Your telling a story and when you are finished with your story it pales in [...]

Are You Listening

The Lost Art of Opening Your Ears By Robert J. Ottaviani The bald eagle, the bog turtle, the African elephant, the blue whales, the gorillas, the lynx, the snow leopard, the giant panda, the black rhino, the whooping crane and the rarest of all sightings … the listener. All of the these aforementioned items share [...]

Choose Your Words and More Importantly Your “Type” Wisely

Robert J. Ottaviani We should all be serving a sentence for committing a heinous crime on the English language. We have blatantly over used, over exaggerated and over indulged ourselves with a misappropriation of words, phrases, and slang. We are guilty as charged. All of us! Let’s take a look at some misguided verbiage we [...]

The Elements

By Robert J. Ottaviani The Greyness And we awoke again under a cold, grey brooding sky that gave no promise of better days. The tree’s remained leafless and colorless with no indication of the possibility of ever bearing fruit again. Birds chose to stay flightless and clung to branches with no motivation to soar free [...]

The Easier Ride

By Robert J. Ottaviani “All aboard, Pittsburgh to New York this way please.” The train guard stood tall and dapper dressed up in his navy blue uniform with cap while directing the boarding traffic. We rolled our baggage on the loading platform past several cars until we decided which car we wanted to enter. “Let [...]

Room Even For The Semi-Sacrilegious

By Robert J. Ottaviani I took the standard oath when I signed on to blog for ProLong thereby surrendering my first born or designated child that I wished to sacrifice. They put me through all of the DNA testing,the secret handshake and signing off on the clause that prevents me from blogging for a competitor. [...]

Instant Impatience

We Still Had Fun Before All of This Technology Hit By Robert J. Ottaviani I’m watching television on my parents 25-inch console television, which is by and large considered huge in size and doubles as a piece of furniture with the nicely fitted wood trim and speaker cloth framing both sides. I do this by [...]

The Secret Of Life

By Robert J. Ottaviani It can be a life long endeavor. It can be something that you put on the shelf to get to later. It can be evasive and elusive. It doesn’t often present itself outwardly and when it does you may not recognize it. It is available to most everyone and yet so [...]

Next Page »