Rome Then and Now

The devastation of lockups

A few days ago, I sat outside a bar in Via Sicilia, the heart of the Rome office and embassy district. I was with a member of the other Old Geezer’s family and was ruminating that I worked for two decades just on the other side of the street.

That was not surprising. Notably, apart from the bar we were in, every commercial outlet had changed. The big min…