When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

Chocolate tasting in Sicily

October 27, 2014
How do you feel about chocolate? I'm a bigger fan of cinnamon. It's not that I'd turn a piece of chocolate cake down--oh no, I wouldn't! -- but if I had my choice, it...

The beauty of Sicily

October 26, 2014
Every turn of the head brought another example of the beauty of Sicily. Today, I'm sharing some of the prettiness I saw on my recent trip to Sicily, the land of my...

Spectacular Siracusa ruins

October 25, 2014
I love ruins and Siracusa, Sicilia is known for its ancient ruins of a Greek Theatre and Roman amphitheatre.  Screw the wine drinking--seeing the Siracusa ruins was...

Who do we have to *$&@#^ to get a dish of pasta around...

October 24, 2014
When I went down to breakfast the first day we were in Sicily, I saw this on a side-table. Cannoli fixin's, as we used to say in the South. They must be preparing...

Fourth century girls just wanna have fun

October 23, 2014
Women working out--sometimes I think we believe the concept was invented in modern times. It's true that my mother wouldn't have even considered it. Nor my...

In search of my Sicilian roots

October 22, 2014
It's easy to forget that I live in a new country, one with only a few hundred years of history. But where I'm from? Where my mother's family came from? Gratteri,...

Graffiti in Sicily

October 21, 2014
Where there is a blank wall, there is a need to fill it. Obviously, this need to make a mark holds true worldwide, and it seems to be any kind of mark, no matter how...

Sicilian storm brewing

October 20, 2014
October in Sicily was hot and humid, shockingly so. Our accommodations were out in the country, beautiful old estates with olive trees and grapevines that had been...

Great knockers of Sicily

October 19, 2014
Just so there's no misunderstanding as to what I mean. Isn't it amazing? I wonder how old it is. These are works of art, to me, anyway. I wish they came with...

Every day life in Sicily

October 18, 2014
If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, does it make noise? That's what comes to mind when I visit a different country and look at every-day life going on...

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