Part-time Italian

A distracted American, an Abruzzo vacation home.
What could go wrong?

At Home in Fossacesia

Around Abruzzo

Around Italy

Jubilation!

Indulgence and Indulgences in Rome You may already know that 2025 is a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church -- a holy year focused on...

Jul 157 min read

Fear & Loathing on the Residency Trail

I knew in advance that my most recent sojourn at the house wasn’t going to be much fun and I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it. I...

Jun 307 min read

Sistas just wanna have fun.

And for some sistas, that means Venice. I asserted in a post last year that winter is a great time to go to Venice, not only for lack of...

Mar 236 min read

Adventures in R&R: Residency & Renovation, that is

Ohoh, I'm an alien! I'm a resident alien! I'm a resident in this borg(o). Well, almost. I am moving to phase 3 of my 4-phase residenza...

Mar 59 min read

The modern stone-age family heads to the heel

Our latest adventure on Italian soil took my sisters Sheila and Rosie and me to Puglia, the beautiful and rocky region in the heel of the...

Nov 11, 202411 min read

About

I’m a New Yorker with one toe in Italy, having bought a small vacation home in Abruzzo 12 years ago. So I’m a visitor in a somewhat familiar land and a homeowner on pretty unfamiliar ground.

Part-time resident, part-time tourist, I’ve landed in Italy more times than I can count.

I’m no longer breathlessly besotted by the country; nor am I at all indifferent to its charms.

These are postcards of my experiences. I hope they’ll be of interest to other part-time Italians, however they be defined.

—Kathryn Casey

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