Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Let's look at the Food Section...

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...Says you-know-who, last Wednesday while we were looking at The   New York Times over breakfast, per our usual. And while listening ...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

"Look, Mommy, it's the Mona Lisa!"

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Down here in Atlanta, there's a saying you'll hear sometimes. "It ain't braggin' if you done it." Well, okay...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

Pushy commands you grow to love

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Here's one: "Read it, Mommy," as my son Leo pushes a book in my hand. Sometimes it's even a book in Italian .
Saturday, September 05, 2015

Puglia in Tavola, prose poem in mind

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Earlier this week, I took down from the book shelf in the kitchen where we keep the cook books a small volume we bought in Puglia : Puglia i...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Lost entry from my Italian trip diary

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Back against the wall, eyes staring across the street, staring at the #54 , as if I were trying to memorize the address or the pattern of th...
Friday, July 10, 2015

I Good Mommy, I Good? (Poesia per Leonardo)

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A poem for Leo, in honor of his third birthday, and the way his words have thoroughly entered my head and changed the way I hear speech -- f...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Wait, did I really just go to Italy?

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As I go about my days back in Atlanta , I’m seized every now and again by a sudden realization: I went to Italy last month. Italy! I rea...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Favorite Italian Spots? Here's One

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L'edicola . The newsstand. Still quite central to Italian life. If for no other reason than where, oh where, would you find so many pu...

Reason #502 I Love Rome

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THIS view. A window into heaven , as it were.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Reason #501 I Love Rome

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This view.
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

And Then We Said Arrivederci

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I'll continue to post photos from my Italy trip to the blog but I'll wrap up the story of my trip here. So here are the numbers. ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Where To Eat in Florence (the Update)

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OK, a long, long time ago I wrote a post about where to eat in Florence . And I'm more than happy to update it now. Full disclosure, b...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Rome Notebook (An Italian Walks Into a Bar)

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3:30 p.m. May 13, 2015. I'll call this post: The difference between Rome and Florence: Take One In a nondescript bar across from the...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Rome, afternoon, 14 May 2015

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Jeanne Shops In Italy (My Top Picks)

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OK, here are my favorite purchases from Italy earlier this month: The coffee cup with the Palazzo Vecchio design. A must-have! Notice the...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Why People Fall In Love With Italy (And In Italy)

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It rarely fails. Tell someone I used to live in Italy and the swooning commences. And these days, right after the person I’m talking to s...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Signs You're In Italy

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I went to Italy, as I’ve said, to rediscover the ways Il Bel Paese has thoroughly enchanted me and millions of others. Enchant, perhaps, ma...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Stradina, Oltrarno, Firenze, 19,30, 17 May 2015

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Ponte Vecchio, Florence, 7 p.m., 17 May 2015

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At that hour, my spot along the Lungarno was the best place to enjoy the bridge, packed as it was with tourists and sunset-seekers taking...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

What I Bought in Italy (Hint: Not Leather Goods)

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Well, first and foremost, books . I bought tons of books while I was in Italy. Just ask my shoulder. I bought two hardbacks of the remaini...