Taking Matters Into His Own Hands
“MARIA, PLEASE, WE NEED MORE than five minutes to get ready in the morning,” I remind her the night before. She complies…
Read more →Ivanka Di Felice
Keeping Up Appearances In Italy
Having barely survived our hectic existence back home, we’re longing to embark on a slower pace of life here. But my father-in-law…
Read more →First Impressions
WE ARRIVE IN ROME. NO taxi is available, so we walk to the bus stop and soon discover that cobblestone is no…
Read more →Getting To Paradise is Not Always Easy – Byzantine Bureaucracy
MY ITALIAN PRINCE HAS BEEN won over! He has unexpectedly received the most unlikely news: the furniture-making shop that employs him is…
Read more →My Love Affair With Italy Begins
I FELL IN LOVE WITH Italy the minute I spotted that peach-colored swing coat in Florence more than twenty years ago. Though…
Read more →Close Encounters Of The Fowl Kind
As we drive down the winding mountain road, I see the national military police up ahead, signaling us to stop. David hits…
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