Jun 02

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

May 17

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

Oct 27

Ten Questions

Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when we shall meet again If ever But time Keeps flowing like a river To the sea The Alan Parsons Project, “Time” (1981) They travelled from » More

Mar 17

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Ross

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. Mason Cooley Ross Geiger turns 24 today. Twenty. Frigging. Four. Somebody bring me some oxygen. And how will my oldest son celebrate the occasion of his turning » More

Sep 11

Double-Nickel

I’m too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security, and too tired for an affair. Erma Bombeck   “Fifty-Five is getting up there, Little Brother,” greeted Robo at 5:30am Wednesday morning, wishing » More

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