THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness

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  • Sacred Greens

    A former boy caddy wonders why grown men pursue a little white ball—and discovers in golf a religion of silence, ritual, confession, and jubilation.

  • Table for Two

    An aging writer confronts lost friends, loneliness, noisy socializing, and chosen solitude—and discovers that living alone does not necessarily mean living without companionship.

  • Mama:The Iceman’s Here

    A reflection on a century of technological progress, from East Boston’s close-knit neighborhoods to today’s digital isolation, asking what we may have lost along the way.

  • Dowsing: Fraud, Demons, or God?

    An engineer’s firsthand encounter with dowsing leads to a historical exploration of science, Catholic thought, and the enduring mystery of divining rods.

  • The Prompted U-Turn

    After abandoning a crowded medical laboratory, an unexpected inner prompting led me to make a U-turn toward another location. What happened next left me wondering whether adults explain away what children readily recognize. This reflection explores providence, coincidence, and Jesus’ invitation to become like little children.

  • A Beautiful Conch Shell

    Can magnificent churches become a beautiful but hollow conch shell? A reflection on the Sagrada Família, Church reform, sacred architecture, and faithful renewal.

  • Much More Than Food

    Before I was born, an Italian family table taught me that food was never just nourishment—it was love, gratitude to God, and the first lesson of faith.

  • Beyond AI: The Real Challenge

    An engineer reflects on WPI in the 1960s, the rise of artificial intelligence, and why lived experience—not information alone—remains the true path to wisdom.

  • The Pause That Refreshes

    A Coca-Cola analogy explores the dispute between Vatican,and SSPX, both missing the original active ingredient phased out long ago

  • Munching on Mars Bars

    As a boy, I munched Mars Bars, read Jules Verne, and dreamed of rockets. Decades later, from Sputnik and Apollo to Elon Musk’s Starships, I find myself asking a different question. Mars may be humanity’s next destination, but the most difficult frontier I encountered was never millions of miles away—it was within.