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Sweet Mary
Mary was sitting there at her desk when I stepped into the little back room adjoining the chapel at Milano's Cimitero Monumentale - the Monumental Cemetery. Now 87, she's given her time for close to...
Late Night Walk Home
A bunch of friends and I met up for a lecture at 9:15 pm at the Design Library. I walked almost a mile along the canals and side streets to meet them there. Afterwards, we all went out for a bite to...
Language Overload
Journal Entry: Sunday, June 10 - On the train returning home to Milano after a weekend in Nice, France, on the Côte d'Azur. My brain hit "overload" sometime yesterday (Saturday) in the language...
Porcini and Brooms
This is real Italian food. They're not over here just eating pizza and spaghetti. And they're NOT eating "Fettucine Alfredo"! (If you see it on a menu, it's only there for the tourists.) The range...
Talking Over the Fence
Standing in my skinny kitchen, washing the dishes, I heard a couple of women talking. I looked out my kitchen window and its security bars, across the long, common courtyard and saw two women...
Scented by Jasmine
Journal Entry - June 1, 2012 "How blessed and full of grace are these days, scented by the jasmine vine along the courtyard rail and set to music by songbirds! The hours are, at last, warm embraces...
Hurled Rain!
What rain in the night! The raindrops must have been a half inch apart and hurled at the ground with such velocity! And I haven't heard thunder, or seen lightning like that since living in the...
Enrica, My Courtyard Neighbor
I was sitting in my room typing today and heard "snip, snip, snip." I looked out my window into the little private courtyards to see a woman in her 60s, trimming in her garden which neighbors mine....
Brunelleschi’s Dome
When going into a new town, seek out the highest point from which to get the most sweeping overview. This will quite often guide your further exploration. In this case, I was back in Florence -...