Winter has arrived in a bone-chilling fury, the snow is piled high  and all I want to do is burrow under the quilts with ca...

Canal Grande Twilight soccer, Campo San Giacomo  Titian, Basilica dei Frari Canals, calles, and campos. The continuous ec...

Bologna: La Dotta, La Grassa, La Rossa.  The Learned, The Fat, and The Red.  The famed university, oldest in Europe (and man...

Happy New Year, friends! A little late, but traveling gives me a fresh perspective on things, and I return with resolutions, b...

The last time I was in Italy was October 2011.  If you go back in the archives you'll find some posts about it. I had a store t...

  A visit to Bow Street Flowers filled me with holiday warmth and cheer, and my house with beauty.   Aji f...

I love Christmas lights. Every night I stay up late,  reading, in sight of the tree. (Do you spy two cats?)  My mantle is cove...