Geraniums are such happy flowers

September 28, 2009
A pot of geraniums always says "happy home"...

Time flies in the pottery studio

September 28, 2009
I spent two afternoons in Diana's pottery studio and can't tell you where the time went.Rolling, shaping, molding, scraping cutting clay is a soul-soothing way to spend...

Strawberries, fresh and sweet

September 28, 2009
I love them displayed against the pale glaze of a hand-built...

Fantasy

September 27, 2009
I'm always taken aback when I encounter a squat-style toilet in Europe. Like I did today, at lunch. It raises all sorts of questions I don't want to even record here.The...

Greeting the day

September 27, 2009
Morning Poem by Mary Oliver Every morningthe worldis created.Under the orange sticks of the sunthe heapedashes of the nightturn into leaves again and fasten...

Living in harmony with bugs

September 26, 2009
I am a sweet, succulent treat, my flesh imbued with some honeyed elixir that draws insects at mealtime.Here in Italy, my skin shows some half a dozen tiny, swollen...

Sit Saturday-from Italy

September 26, 2009
The tales of our wagging tails are suspended because our babies are in the States and we are in Italy. Which would be unbearable if Italy wasn't...Italy.Instead, we'll...

Mobbed up

September 25, 2009
What better place than Italy for my Sicilian-American husband and his Sicilian-American-princess wife to discuss their mob heritage?The dapper Sugar Bush Squirrel just...

In the blink of an eye

September 25, 2009
Apparently this was published on August 31, 2009 in the Syracuse Post-Standard. I accidentally discovered that they took my submission without even letting me...

Avoiding writing exercises

September 25, 2009
....is best done by drinking copious amounts of Piemontese wine. In...

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