No Time for Catnaps, She’s teaching me Italian

A Lesson in Italian My cat is teaching me Italian. She’s still mainly focused on my language, but history lessons have also come to the surface by chance. More on the history lessons another day. First, let me explain the Italian lessons. Truth be told, she is not my...

The Scent of an Olive

I wrote this post last spring as we were embarking on our journey back from Sicily to the US. I had not posted it as we were immediately submerged in life in the States, scrambling with renovations, farm dinners, and family affairs. What a joy it was to spend the...

When Angels Come

Technology is both my best friend and enemy. In the mornings, my practice has been to open my email and start the day by knocking out to-do lists before I write. The writing never comes because the lists are always so long. Then something happened the other day. I was...