Sleeping till 9:30 has a lot to recommend it, but by the time all our teeth are brushed and breakfast eaten and cleaned up, it is almost time for the mid-day jaunt into town. Sleeping late interferes with enjoying a long day- there just isn’t enough left of it to make anything happen! But we …
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Are we Lazy, or Doing our work
Your choice-we call it work Some random thoughts on Italy. Everyone has these very deliberate haircuts. Whether they are short only on the sides, or crisply trim, or top long, whatever, the effect is that there are a lot of barbershops cutting hair, and it is my impression that people are aware of each other …
Sunday in the hood
Our weekend workshop was Friday through Sunday, daytime, USA. Here it looked like afternoon through the next morning. Lew in one room participating on his zoom, and me in another, we managed to attend most.I gave up at 4:51 AM, and left Lew, who has amazing stamina. to stumble in a couple of hours later. …
benissimo!
It happened. Against all of my own prognostications and denouncements, it was. And now I am one whole decade further along the route to the sun. Lew brought me three cards- three! cards in lieu of the fact that he couldn’t find one that said Happy Birthday. We had plans, yes we did. We were …
One long day in Genova
Going by train and bus is easy, we said. Urban creatures that we are- urbane and sophisticated with world travel, we read that the UNESCO site called the ROLLI, would be open in Genova for a few days- those days while we are here nearby. We planned a lovely long day, and we got it …
Quiet times
Genealogy was the work of the day, with the four of us each on our various devices, trying to sort out how to properly enter records we aren’t really supposed to have so that we can do the work we are trying to do. The records from one of the towns are sparse, and probably, …
Big City Grays
Hello to you on what will probably be a Saturday morning. I can’t keep trackToday I am writing in a little 2-star family lodging place we’ve stayed in for years. The Ascot Lodging Malpensa. The prices never go up because they never reinvest in the place, but they are lovely to us and have a …
Sundays random thoughts under a massive rainstorm
We attended a meeting at home scheduled for 7:30 MT (3:30 AM here), and since sound travels quite a bit, we padded to the car to Zoom onto the meeting in the dark, setting the phone on the dashboard. Daughter Kelley didn’t need to be awakened with our chatter. Afterward, now wide awake, we read …
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Cimitero
It is Saturday here, and we are all done in from lunch and a beautiful drive, and in the quiet space, I’ll begin a little writing. So far on this trip, I’ve found that one little story I’ve been writing and sweating over this past year, is so short that it doesn’t qualify as a …
Tourists!
Saturday, having snagged Kelley on a corner in Milan, we determined to go, once again, to Cinque Terre after a fine night’s sleep. The site of several previous visits, by now, we’d know better, one would think. CT is beautiful — As no doubt you all have seen in photos, or have walked, five ancient …