One Week: Three Italian Cities. . . .Photos from Florence

 We’re heading back to Bordeaux today after a week in Italy, based at our daughter’s home not far from Rome. These images are from the two-and-a-bit days we spent in Florence, a city that deserves…

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Waving from a Beach near Rome

Before heading out for the train this morning, I put together a quick post using the mobile app BlogGo, and for the second consecutive time using this program, clicking on “Publish” resulted in tears and…

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Ferrante ReadAlong — Turning Points?

Edited to add: Thanks so much to Lisa for linking to this post and welcome to any visitors from Amid Privilege’s reading post. Although I’ve just written the last post in this Readalong, you’re very…

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Recent Reading, Armchair Travel and Mystery Novels and Marriage . . .

I’m determined to post another Ferrante ReadAlong entry soon, but I’ve hardly been a monogamous reader — and my travel status tends to encourage Vacation Reading. If the move into the year’s darker days has…

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Ferrante Read-along, Adolescence, Postponed . . .

Goodness, What was I thinking? You, perhaps, knowing I was to fly somewhere this past Sunday, that I was embarking on ten weeks’ travel, wondered how I’d ever manage to post on ten more chapters.…

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