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All Things Italy March 2023 Is the Jet Lag Worth It?
Sunrise over the sea at Siracusa, Sicily, March 1. Rising at this hour, around 7, and to this beauty, is more feasible for me than...
All Things Italy February 2023
Time Warp and Culture Waves Not far from Rome's colosseum, a skateboard park constructed for a 2022 competition bustles with activity on a winter Sunday...
All Things Italy January 2023
Something old, something new . . . The Rotunda under winter morning fog, University of Virginia Dear Friends, “Something old, something new” rings of weddings...
All Things Italy December 2022 19th-C. Asks from Italy Pre-date Giving Tuesday
Dear Friends, This issue of All Things Italy pushes into the past as well as across the Atlantic as I consider end-of-year giving and its...
All Things Italy November 2022 Where is Home?
Rome's cimitero acattolico, or non-catholic cemetery With the fall of leaves, the slant of the sun, holidays like All Saints Day, and other holidays ahead,...
All Things Italy October 2022
Early October light on the details of an eighteenth-century monastery in southern Italy Dear Friends: First, a hearty hello to new subscribers! I hope you...
All Things Italy September 2022
Vico Equense, on the Sorrento Peninsula south of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius in the distance Dear friends: Last month I promised info about the Bay...
All Things Italy July/August 2022 Fa Caldo . . . Fa Caldissimo!
Italian Alps near Courmayer, just south of Monte Bianco Dear friends: I’m writing this letter from home, back in the USA, sitting at a desk...
All Things Italy June 2022 Words from a Solo Traveler
Hello, friends, and greetings from Genova Nervi. It’s been a month that I’ve been away from home and on the ground in Italy. Approaching four...
All Things Italy May 2022 May’s End Means a Return to Rome
Ponte Sisto over the Tiber Hello, friends, and greetings from Rome! Late May means, as many of you know, I submitted students’ grades and headed...
