Chris Carosa

No matter who we are, life has a tendency to place us in moments of historical context. We may not know it at the time of the event, but as the years go by we begin to recognize the significance – and c

Are you stuffed with stuffing? Are you still sweet on sweet potatoes? Did you eat 3.1416 slices of pumpkin pie, apple pie, and (my favorite) chocolate banana cream pie? And, despite all this voraciousness, is the

Scam artists know a thing or two about human behavior. More than the humans they are about to scam. That’s the problem. Want to know a worse problem? When those scammed humans are playing with your money. Why is t

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to the event that inspired the hit song “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” and the subsequent 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland. It was a happening that

What happened when something touches you so deeply, it forever stays with you? That’s the feeling I have whenever I recall Apollo 11. A lot of things got burned into my nine-year-old brain during those nine days f

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BY RILEY WALL
Fall Weekend 2018 started with a great parade, followed by “the drive” as the HF-L football team topped UPrep and then, on Sunday October 14, the 22nd annual running of the Youth Trophy Cup Run

Yes, there are many Italian American heroes. They come in all sizes and shapes. From the world of business to the world of entertainment. They are builders, they are athletes. They enforce the law and make the

What’s more (Italian) American than the Old West? And we’re not talking about Clint Eastwood’s “Spaghetti Westerns” (a film genre invented by Italian director/producer/screenwriter Sergio Leone). No, we’re tal

Christopher Columbus gets much of the credit when it comes to the founding of America, and rightly so. His courageous voyage, coming on the heels of the fall of Constantinople, gave Christianity a new hope, and

Have you have moved to a different school, a different neighborhood? Have you seen how people tend to treat the “new kid on the block”? Not very pretty, but it’s a ritual one must withstand before one can becom

Face it. People hate change. You pick a product. Learn how to use it. Get settled into a nice little routine. Then, Bam! They change something. It could be a system upgrade. It could be a new dashboard. Maybe

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We use the phrase “lightning striking twice” to suggest an extremely rare event. When people find themselves in the right place at the right time, we call them lucky. When “lightning strikes twice” and thy again a

If you could go back in time to any day you might pick, chances are, if you’ve been a loyal reader of this series, this is the date you’d pick. What was it like? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Hamb

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How do you build a convincing case when there’s no smoking gun? Well, you need a preponderance of evidence with so many overlapping coincidences that it suggests it just might not be a coincidence. Would you l

And then there were two. It begins with the “simple” task of fact checking and finding second sources. Why is “simple” in quotes? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Hamburger WhoDunIt Part IV: A (Swiss) Che

And now we’re down to the final three. Where Sherlock Holmes ends, modern forensics begins. Who will be the first to be voted off the list of contenders? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “Hamburger WhoDu

How do you begin to solve a mystery that dates back to the nineteenth century? Why, by using the methods of deduction from one of that era’s greatest crime-solving sleuths. What does this reveal? Read this w