Showing posts with label Ciambellina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ciambellina. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 09, 2026

Top photos from 20 years of blogging

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Leo in Rome , 2018 (Piazza Bucarest) I love this photo so much because it's the honest result of introducing a curious boy to the Eterna...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Ask your library to buy THIS DARKNESS WILL NEVER END

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Did you know you could ask your public library to buy a book that you'd like to read? Yes! (See UPDATE below) And that book could be Th...
Saturday, July 04, 2026

Re-discovering New Haven for CNN Travel

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I got to visit New Haven on the company dime and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now you can, too -- here's my story . It's part of a ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

“Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945”

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I write letters to the editor of The New York Times but only occasionally are they accepted. This one below was not but I remain fascinated...
Monday, June 01, 2026

The 20th anniversary of my blog!

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Two decades ago, I sought a method to log the ways Italy had seduced me, and the activities I pursued so that the language of Dante would re...
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Thursday, April 02, 2026

'This Darkness Will Never End' turns one!

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Once upon a time, I'd never heard of the phrase "book birthday." And now my translation, This Darkness Will Never End , is tur...
Monday, March 30, 2026

'This Darkness Will Never End' is 'powerful,' @Assoc. of Jewish Libraries

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A reviewer writing in the newsletter of the Association of Jewish Libraries highly recommends my translation, This Darkness Will Never End ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

Nieman: Most Americans don’t pay for news & don’t think they need to

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This isn't a blog about the profession that's helped me pay the bills. It's quite the opposite -- a blog to my passions, the on...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Jeanne journals

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I don't like it when the word 'journal' is used as a verb.  Let's journal about this. OR: She spent the afternoon journalin...
Friday, February 06, 2026

The best magazine you've never read (unless you're 12)

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When “The Week Junior”  arrives in the mail, my 12-year-old son sits down immediately to read it cover to cover. One quick look at its smart...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

What I read in 2025

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Not a great year in reading for me and I am all to blame, a self-inflicted wound owing to distraction and commitments related to the transla...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

A poem for today? The Second Coming by Yeats

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(First stanza, only. How prescient W. B. Yeats was!) Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things...
Monday, December 29, 2025

I eloped "with" Italy 30 years ago

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How odd to conclude that among the loves of your life is an entire country, in addition to the real loved ones, like Leo. I am, of course, t...