Nov 23, 2019 6 min Harvest Boon My visit to Fossacesia this fall was full of wonderful surprises. The surprise of having friends here who only months ago were strangers...
Nov 11, 2019 1 min Down with the sun, up with the color Well, I’m just back from 12 days in Fossacesia and recovered from a 24-hour post-flight bug. (Thanks again, bacterial convention that is...
Oct 6, 2019 3 min Dog Days Redux (This one's more cheerful) On Wednesday morning, I had a tea date at my home with Angela, a Manchester native who now lives in nearby Torino di Sangro. She arrived...
Aug 18, 2019 3 min The beach is back. Usually, you can count on July in Italy to bring 31 days of sun. Not this year. On July 10th, I took a pullman from Rome to Pescara,...
May 20, 2019 1 min A Few of My FavoriteThings Wrought-iron bed that three people can fit in, Sketches of horses where artist has written… Since I left off talking about the artisanal...
May 7, 2019 2 min Scenes from Fossacesia Meanwhile, my niece Victoria visited for a few days from Dublin, where she’s spending the year. It was lovely to bond with her outside...
Apr 28, 2019 5 min Four Friends and a Few Nuts My road to a home in Italy, and then to a habitable one, and then to one in which I feel at home has been and continues to be a tortuous...
Feb 6, 2019 6 min Not Quite at Home Yet The more time I spend in Italy, the more I’m aware of what a stranger I am, culturally. It’s funny to say that because I think of Italian...
Jan 17, 2019 2 min An unexpectedly brief stay in Fossacesia... and an unexpected and sorrowful goodbye I got home from Italy last Tuesday night, 15 days earlier than I’d planned. There were so many things I’d hoped to do during this last...
Nov 5, 2018 1 min Gekko who’s coming to dinner. Every once in a while, I see in the corner of my eye something dark and darting, usually high on the wall. It gives me a real start until...
