Finding Our Joy Until We Can Travel Again
One of the habits I’ve adopted in this strange period we are living through is daily mediations through an app called Insight Timer. I was perplexed a few days ago ...
Bologna, Life in Bologna, Travel Opinion
Take a Chance on Bologna
Author’s note: I’ve written this article with an optimistic heart that international travel will be viable in the not-too-distant future. Please take my recommendations with that in mind, as the ...
Bologna: the city of nighttime.
As the host of what is considered by many to be the oldest university in the western world, Bologna has been a second home for young people from across Europe ...
Italian Liberation Day in Bologna
April 25 is known in Italy as the Anniversario della Liberazione d’Italia, or the Anniversario della Resistenza. It was during these last weeks of April, 71 years ago, that one ...
Italy Travel, Travel: My stories
Saint Faustino’s Day: Celebrating Singledom the Italian Way
After spending most of the last five years of my life in Bologna, Italy, the day after Valentine’s Day will never be the same. With the same pioneering, rule-breaking ...
Illustrious Instants: An Afternoon Stroll in Bologna
This photo is perhaps the most “illustrious” of my “instants” so far. The photo isn’t meant to demonstrate fabulous composition, color, movement, etc. The photo taking is normal, but the ...
Anniversaries
It snuck up on me…exactly one year ago today I left Bologna to return to family, friends, and career in the US. It hasn’t been an easy year, but ...
Bologna, Illustrious Instants, Life in Bologna
Illustrious Instants: Celebrating spring in Bologna's beautiful colli (hills)
It was almost exactly one year ago today that this moment was captured, on one of those blissful Sunday afternoons with friends and nothing else on your mind to distract ...
Cesenatico, Italy Travel, Travel: My stories
Celebrating the Italian Summer at the Seaside in Cesenatico
Italians find themselves at the sea nearly every summer weekend, whether they smartly rent or own a whole beach house, or just a few feet of sand under an umbrella. ...
Bologna, Life in Bologna, Photo Tours, Travel: My stories
Kite flying at midnight, Notte Bianca, and how I fell in love with Bologna again
I guess it is pretty much a given that living far away from home is never easy. And living in a different country is equally challenging. So at my three-year ...
The sound of vacation.
What is it about the sound of the beach…the breeze, the drone of the ocean and the occasional squawk of a seagull that is powerful enough to make (almost) all ...
Illustrious Instants, Ossining, NY, Travel Opinion, Travel: My stories, United States travel
Reloving America Summer 2013: On the Hudson River
This is my summer of re-love. I have returned to the United States for a mere two months, as I have done each summer since I relocated to Bologna, Italy ...