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 comparison to the story [...]

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 a common [...]

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 have [...]

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 in [...]

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 me help [...]

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.
I know [...]

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 pulling [...]

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 few [...]

A Twisted Little Poem

By Robert J. Ottaviani
Sometimes stories and poems have real morals that we can all learn from. Our author Bert Ottaviani offers this twisted little original poem about the big one that got away, a fish story with a moral. Enjoy this quick read over the holidays when you have a free moment to reflect.

There was [...]

A Pocket Full Of Change

For The Jukebox Playing Inside of Your Head
By Robert J. Ottaviani
Whether you bop to pop, nettle with metal, poke around with folk, flock to rock, pay your dues for the blues, flip flop about hip hop, prance to dance, have a hanker-in for Hank or are a spaz about jazz-there’s something for everyone when it [...]

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