I’m so pleased — and excited! — to bring you this digital visit with a recently retired former Los Angelena who, with her husband, dreamed up a big move and new lifestyle in Portugal —…
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In my Italian class this summer, we’re reading our way through Italian journalist Aldo Cazzullo’s book of interviews with 70 Italiani Che Resteranno — or, 70 Italians (drawn from the last three or four decades) who will…
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Two years ago today, we were in Lazio, Italy, on a daytrip from our daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter’s home near Rome to the medieval clifftop village of Calcata. Condemned in the 1930’s for fears of…
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This will be the first Christmas Pater and I have ever spent on our own, just the two of us, as is likely the case for many of you as well. But a few years…
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An old door in notre quartier (our neighbourhood). . . Bordeaux, 2016 A busy week here — My schedule always seems full enough already, but I had to add a few more items to the…
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