Stories nobody else tells, or would dare to.

Enter a world in which a transparent boy vanquishes a tyrant by the force of his goodness and a Roman soldier offers water to the dying Jesus and gets an eerie reward.

Visit the ruins of ancient Sicilian civilizations immediately after 9/11, the cathedrals of Polaris, which are “taller than your giant redwoods,” and the Bardo, where the soul goes between lives.

Wander the Sahara with the ghost of Alexander the Great and medieval Italy with the original followers of St. Francis of Assisi.

Bernie draws on his love of American popular song, his halting Italian and his sense of the absurd to enliven stories from this life, lives going back beyond antiquity, and people and other beings he has known and loved time and again.