24 Hours In A Dreamer’s Life

By Robert J. Ottaviani Just Me I awoke this particular morning like I had several other mornings, to the sound of complete silence. I have learned to really appreciate this segment of time when I am afforded total solitude. I am alone with my thoughts just watching the rays of the sun pouring through my [...]

In Tune With The Universe

Don’t Allow Anything To Change Your World By Robert J. Ottaviani Jai guru deva … ommmm … nothing’s gonna change my world … so penned the indisputable John Lennon in 1968 after crafting the song “Across The Universe” following The Beatles experience with transcendental meditation in 1967 and beyond. The inspiration came from then-wife Cynthia [...]

500 Million Reasons To Become An Addict

HOOKED ON FACEBOOK I entered the rehab center willingly, walking slowly past the long dank corridor to the long flight of stairs leading up to the next level, slowing occasionally to look at the Lindsay Lohan and Robert Downey Jr. signed 8×10′s hanging crookedly on the wall. A freeze frame of their time spent here [...]

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 [...]

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