: About Me

I've been working as a freelance translator for over twenty years now. I've done lots of technical and technological material, as well as legal and medical material. I primarily translate from French to English but have done considerable translation from both Spanish and Italian to English.

More and more I find myself gravitating towards more abstract fields such as publicity, literature, book reviews and other sundry mental and aesthetic gymnastics.

Keenly interested in what makes humans tick, fields such as philosophy, politics, ethics mass psychology and religion have always fascinated me. I much more enjoy understanding people than trying to persuade them and prefer thinking that my adventure is more bent on discovering than conquering.

I live in the south of France near the Italian border and a few hundred meters from the Mediterranean Sea. I'm looking forward to sharing with North American writers and thinkers a certain view from this side in the hopes we may all be pleasantly surprised. I've got no particular flag or ideology to defend other than the hope to be able to share and grow with all of the members of the community here.

My passion is ...

Philology

I know too much about ...

psychology

My parents always told me ...

To get a good job...

My childhood ambition ...

to grow up

My favorite memory ...

discovering I have Alzheimer's

Why I write ...

to weave a web with other stars twinkling out in space

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Umberto Galiberti, "Psyche e Tecnica"

My first job ...

Finding my physical place in the world

My best moment ...

finding it

My inspiration ...

Prisms

Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Should Israel preemptively strike Iran to keep them from getting a nuclear bomb?

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This very question smacks of a tendency in today's journalism that leaves us awash in the ambiguity of euphemisms. Were they not so cruel, they would be absolutely ludicrous. For example, during WWII, what is now known as the, "Secretary of Defense," was known as the, "War Department." As aggressive as the latter title may sound, at least it had the merit of being honest. In those days, the War Department waged war. Nevertheless, nowadays, when Washington speaks of, "Defense," this is rarely the case. Rather, the thinly veiled efforts of the powers that be to qualify its efforts as such pa...

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