The Road to Italy, Part III…Val d’Orcia
Italia! O Italia! Thou who hast the fatal gift of Beauty Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Pigeons…I’ve traveled ten thousand miles to wake up to pigeons. The Pretty Blonde, courtesy of ear plugs, lies bone-still next » More
BREXIT: My Two Cents
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Composed after spending WAY too much time Sunday morning contemplating my navel… I’ve traded » More
The Road to Italy, Part II…Orvieto
Take my hand and grow young with me. Don’t rush. Don’t sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture. Marlena de » More
The Road to Italy
Of course the Italians lost World War II. They had to stop for lunch Susan Morgan Orvieto…Val d’Orcia…Chianti…San Gimignano…Lake Como. Over the course of fourteen seductive days, The Pretty and Blonde and I celebrated thirty » More
Who was Dan Gabor?
“And I would have liked to have known you But I was just a kid Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did.” – Elton John, “Candle In The Wind” (1973) Dear Readers…the » More