Maria MocerinoChristmas in Naples is a Sport — I don’t remember who I am, Carmine doesn’t know who he isAS I WAS UNPACKING, I caught a “butterfly” on a haunting guitar line across the hall. It sounded like a carriage of some kind in a…5 min read·Nov 4, 2023----
Maria MocerinoThe Year I was Invaded by the Russians — the Russian thiefThe word “thief” flooded my vision in braided cursive, thin but tight, when I first laid eyes on Bratan, Russian street slang for…9 min read·Oct 25, 2023----
Maria MocerinoHasan’s emotional truth over the factual truthMy head tends to spin a little around talk of the truth because my mother, Dr. J, was a pathological liar. What does that mean? Another…7 min read·Sep 24, 2023----
Maria MocerinoTHE SPIRIT OF THE TIMESHow “the break from religion” changed higher education, the University of Chicago under Robert Hutchins, and how this all relates to…16 min read·Aug 20, 2023----
Maria MocerinoMy cousin Vico is a siren that welcomed me back in song…Legend goes that Parthenope vowed to rise a city of music after their siren failed to lure Odysseus and washed ashore. Naples traces its…8 min read·May 30, 2023----
Maria MocerinoShowtime Christmas Part IDOWN THE INTERSTATE, that first Christmas in New Jersey, I was in the car with Uncle Joe at the wheel of Aunt Jane’s leased Buick.14 min read·Dec 21, 2022----
Maria MocerinoChristmas is Naples is Coming…We’ve been training all year for this moment—Christmas. One month, one desire. In Naples, Italy, Christmas is a sport, not some family…5 min read·Nov 22, 2022----
Maria MocerinoThe Exit is Home, Hades said.A kite flying loose and crazy and blindingly bright, Dr. J didn’t touch the ground. She wasn’t a solid thing, made of air, confetti, and…26 min read·Oct 23, 2022----
Maria MocerinoThe I Tanya DVDThe Wise Screenwriter was kind enough to lend me the Academy Award-nominated films some years ago. I was living in Marina Del Rey at the…5 min read·Oct 20, 2022----