Volume One: Frank's Wild Years (1983--2009)

There are 8 stories in Volume One

Exile on a peppercorn
March 15, 2009
As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I spent some time in Romania. I lived there, went to school there, spent my pre-adolescent years there.
Bimbos make me want to pretend to be a better man
March 1, 2009
But I kept thinking about my grandfather fighting in the Pacific when this chick was born. I was turned on and skeezed out at the same time.
The needle and the damage done
February 18, 2009
Things have loosened up the last few months and so I'm feeling the desire to write creep in again.
So buy this fool some spirits and libations
February 10, 2009
The year before, the year of the boar, the zodiac of my birth, we'll that year was a doozy.
Why chicks don't like me
June 1, 2003
Yesterday, in between coffee and going to a movie theater with the parents, I went to an athletic store to buy shoes.
The 'Bum Effect'
May 31, 2003
It seems that lately I've been fascinated with small things. Seemingly insignificant things.
Stick shifts and safety belts
May 30, 2003
Who just sits stoically and thinks anyway? I know I've seen it done in the movies, but I can't honestly say I've ever tried it myself.
To begin a blog
May 30, 2003
I'd like to begin by talking about procrastination. Everyone does it to some extent, but for me, well, I procrastinate like Dave Barry writes.

Follow the river and you will find the sea

Oscar Facciolo De Soto enjoys a river cruise with his family in Bundesrepublik Deutschland circa 1992.