I have found that putting my experiences into words while we live here has made me more aware and reflective of every day life. It is in that spirit that I want to share what it feels like to be sitting in Italy, far from home, hours after the Presidential election winner was officially announced. […]
I know that I have been viewing Italian life through gelato-colored glasses. Besides whining about the difficulties with our visas, I’ve been sharing almost exclusively positive, rosy stories about our sabbatical year thus far. Maybe because I have felt sick all day, or maybe because there is construction on both sides of our apartment (how […]
We have very cool cousins (Doug, Diana and their daughter Ruhamah) that live in Geneva that I haven’t seen in years, so we have been looking forward to visiting them. If you look at the map, Geneva looks pretty darn close to Torino (150 miles). However, there is a bit of geography that adds to […]