Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…
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L. to R., Natalie, of Tormaresca Wines, my daughter-in-law J, husband P, son Z, and son-in-law A. My blogging task this week — let’s call it a late New Year’s Resolution, shall we? — was…
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Only one chapter into Donna Leon’s About Face, and already I’d found two sentences worth remarking First, for the brilliantly sly balancing of its second (post-semi-colon) independent clause: “He recognized the Conte’s lawyer and his…
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You’ll have noticed that I’m trying to bring my blog back home, so that some of last week’s Five Things Fridaywere pictures of how the garden is doing after its month of neglect, and of…
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Last Sunday, you might remember, I wanted to share a video of the bell ringing its call to worship just above and beyond our rooftop terrace as we sat adjusting to Peschici’s stunningly blue skies.…
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