Saturday, July 08, 2017

Dear Leo: Happy Birthday!

›
Dear Leo, Five years ago, I looked like the person in the photo -- I was that person. Atlanta was gripped in a heat wave -- I lea...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Dove sono finite le scrittrici italiane?

›
Colleghi italiani! Ho scritto un brano per un sito Web, Literary Hub, il quale parla di libri e il mondo delle lettere. Per precisare, int...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

What I bought in Italy -- Italian trip diary (2017)

›
Summary for this post? How about: What you buy in Italy when you're an Italophile , traveling mainly for the nostalgia, with the sure kn...
2 comments:
Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #10 Parole italiane

›
Best of Italy: parole italiane . Italian words. Any Italian words. All Italian words. In this case, it's a two-fer. A sign commemor...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #9 Room with view

›
My room with a view -- at a friend's house in Florence during my trip to Italy last month. (Was it really last month, already?) Th...
Saturday, June 03, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #8 ... Caffe + dog

›
They love their cafes in Turin, they love their coffee and I guess they love their dogs. Snapped at Caffe Vittorio Veneto two weeks ago,...
Friday, June 02, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #7 Hiking Pistoia!

›
I want to say the highlight of my trip to Italy last month was hiking with my friend, Giovanni! Talking about forest cleansing. How can...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #6 Crazy dry cleaner

›
Lots of stops when I return to Italy, and most are of a very personal kind of tourism. Like checking to see if "the crazy dry cleaner...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #5 Torino courtyard

›
Will someone tell me if I've failed so far to make the case that Torino is astonishingly beautiful? That hidden treasures await you?...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day -- #4 Fresh peas!

›
Just follow them. Go where they go, do what they say, ask questions but don't obstruct. Those are my unspoken rules for being with I...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day -- #3 Fiori!

›
Sure, we have flower boxes in our windows, too, in America but they never look like this! What exactly is the Signora feeding these flowe...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day -- #2 Breakfast

›
Una ciambellina. Oo-nuh chah-m-bell-eena. The name of my favorite Italian pastry, hands down. The name of this blog, in fact! I did ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Piazza San Carlo, Torino -- Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #1

›
So we're in Torino, here, in Piazza San Carlo. But which photo is the best? Which photo makes you want to jump on a plane right now? ...

I love Turin's trams -- Italian trip 2017: photo-a-day #1.5

›
I'd like to inhale this tram (see other post for explanation). The way it moves down the street, barreling through tight spaces betwe...
1 comment:
Friday, May 26, 2017

Italian diary, May 2017

›
I’m back in the “in-between” world, the space where sentences begin in one language and end in another.  It’s a world that I inhabi...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Map my brain

›
I have this fantasy about what I call "mapping my brain." In other words: pouring my thoughts out to an illustrator so that he ...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Italy trip prep! Alessandro Gassman interview

›
I try to immerse myself in the Italian language before embarking on a trip to Italy. That means loading up on podcasts, watching films and...
Friday, April 21, 2017

I.Am.Going.On.a.Trip. Me. Si, si!

›
This is a travel post about a trip I haven’t taken yet. But I know how it’s going to go.   It will be more or less the trip of a life...
2 comments:
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Mommy's Book of Moods (redux)

›
I feel sometimes as though I could write an entire book about my moods. Is everyone this way? Join me as I indulge this fantasy. I cou...
4 comments:
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Atlanta's Italian film fest -- my pick: "La Scelta"

›
Every year I attend the Italian film festival in Atlanta (at the beloved Plaza Theater) and each year I mean to handicap the festival for...