More Marlon James. . .

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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Wednesday, Tried for Wordless, Didn’t Quite Work Out!

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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Nana Time (subtitle: coaxing meals from near-empty pantries)

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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Friday Five — Daybreak and Links

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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Running Update, Featuring Rome’s Borghese Gardens

If you’ve been reading here for any time at all, you probably know that I run regularly, but in the light of my recent post contemplating whether I could benefit from doing 20% less, I…

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