( 1956 – 2023) I am looking out the window and, as this last Saturday comes to a close, I realize my heart is filled with gratitude. After five and a half weeks in residence enjoying the company of wonderful fellows and staff whom I now gratefully call my...
Richard Roth (CRF 2012), part of the CRF Advisory Council, is an American journalist and writer living in London. A contributing correspondent for CBS News “Sunday Morning”, he has covered wars, domestic and international politics, sports, and fashion for CBS News...
Excerpt from Chairman of Fools (Provisionally title) At the gate of the house, Dzimai floats out of the car like a wisp of smoke, into the night. Thomas the gardener emerges from the gazebo, hands him some mail and vanishes into the shadows. He goes in through the...
At Civitella I felt on the good side of humanity and this is necessary in these times. I loved the idea that if languages, countries, and cultures can divide us, a castle can reunite us! I think that this place helps to save what is essential to our abundance: the...
