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A Lame Duck American
There is a mind-set you adopt when you are about to move far, far away. You become a short-timer; drawing an arbitrary line in the sand – a sort of invisible cut-off date after which you won’t be...
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On Italian Time
60 days, 8 weeks, 1440 hours, 86,400 minutes and 5,184,000 seconds… Everyday I obsessively enter my impending departure date into a duration calculator, but strangely the “days remaining until I arrive...
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A Book Review: “The Etruscan Chef”
I’ve been in Orvieto just a little over a week. Already a lot has occurred – some good, some not so good. Such is life. Strange things are happening… …like writing my very first book review… The...
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Do Italians Celebrate Thanksgiving?
In Orvieto they do. They say LOVE is the universal language, but really it’s FOOD. Bridging the gap between languages, cultures, and traditions – food is humanity’s common denominator. “Yum”...
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A Day in the Life
This is an actual email I received this morning from a friend: Soooo….how is everything? Lots of rain here. My roof is leaking. Just got in from my second trip to JFK in a week. I spent a week in...
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Italy, The Universe and Me
Some people believe that in life “shit happens” – millions of bumper stickers even say so. These same realists might think that everything unfolds over our lifetime in a series of random occurrences...
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Top 8 Survival Tips for The “Language-Challenged” in Italy
Tip #1: Point and grunt. Tip #2: Always have Google Translate open on your phone and a copy of the “Alfabeto Fonetico” in your wallet. My name spelled out this way is...
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DEATH LOGS IN: BOOK REVIEW*
*Oops! Yesterday, I accidentally published the following Italy Book Tours review ahead of scheduled release and had to take it down from the site! For the followers of this blog who got a erroneous...
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31 Days of Orvieto: Day #28 – COFFEE/CAFFE
Coffee bars in Italy are its life blood. For over 100 years, Bar Montanucci has been pouring caffeine-addicted Orvietani their morning cappuccinos (in my case, caffe latte) as well as offering fresh,...
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31 Days of Orvieto: A CULMINATION…
I can’t believe it’s been 31 days already! Time flies when you’re having fun! What a wonderful experience it’s been to sit down everyday and write about the people, places and things that make this...
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Pizza di Pasqua: Easter in Umbria
Pasticceria Nando Orvieto Instead of an oversize bunny rabbit leaving a basket of candied eggs, citizens of Orvieto wake up on Easter morning to a breakfast of Pizza di Pasqua (it’s not really a pizza,...
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The Local Italy Gives Orvieto a ‘Shout Out’
Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m all about promoting my hometown of Oriveto, so I’m absolutely thrilled to repost the following article published today in the The Local Italy! A Rome-based,...
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I Live in Italy, But I’m Still An American
This post isn’t about the results of today’s US election. It’s not about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. It’s not about conservatism vs. liberalism, right vs. left, republican vs. democrat. It’s...
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