One of the wonderful and fascinating results of travel, for me, is the way memory grabs certain moments and returns you to them randomly. So that often, you might be in the middle, say, of…
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Thanks again to Georgia for a post that has whetted my appetite for reading Elana Ferrante’s backlist. I’ve got Ferrante’s Neapolitan books piled up by my desktop computer waiting for me to be home long…
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Breaking News!! Within minutes of posting this, sans photos, I seem to have figured out how to download them from the iCloud, on my PC. So here are a few photos of Windows of Rome I…
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Anticipating my granddaughter’s sleepover, I assumed we’d go out for sushi dinner last night and then out for bacon and eggs or pancakes this morning. I’d underestimated how much she’d been looking forward to playing…
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Over the last few years, I’ve somehow established a pattern of waking between 5 and 5:30 a.m., sometimes even earlier. I’d love to get a bit more sleep, but as compensation for the open eyelids,…
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