Personal and Professional Musings
I’d like to take a minute (just sit right there, I’ll tell ya how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Aire) to talk about grocery shopping in Italy. Fair warning. This post is completely mundane. Because I go to the store almost daily (on account of that whole “I can only buy what…
Four days before I graduated high school, my brother broke his leg. He was trying to snag an errant throw at second on a double play during summer baseball and the kid from the other team slid right into him and broke his leg so badly, he had to have (and still has) a metal…
We are still discovering the places where we can visit for day trips and Trieste was definitely on the list. My brother’s fiancee (!!) had lived there for two years and had some great suggestions for us, so we hopped a late morning train for the hour-ride to Trieste. Since we arrived at lunch time,…
I’m always looking for a good excuse to try new recipes and Valentine’s Day seemed like the perfect occasion
No sooner than I post a rant about the rainy weather, then we wake up to a gorgeous day. It’s a miracle. One that clearly called for me being outside…so I ventured outside the city walls (literally) to walk around the neighborhood and snap a few photos (two, really, because I didn’t want to seem…
Non mi piace la pioggia! Know what that means? It means ‘I don’t like the rain’… I didn’t even have to look it up. I know that phrase by heart. I know the weather is a lame post topic, but seriously. It has been SO gray and rainy here. Late last week, Dave and I…
One of the (many) things that I had to look forward to when we decided to move to Italy for Dave’s school, was that his program would take us just a two-hour train ride from Venice, where one of my cousins has been living for a few years. On Saturday, Dave and I took the…
The sun finally came out today! Hooray! I’m sitting here with the windows wide open— never mind that it’s a breezy 55–day. I don’t even care. It’s sunny! On Sunday night, one of Dave’s classmates (and his wife) invited everyone over for wine and heavy apps which was very nice of them. It also gave…
I hear California is entering official drought status. Meanwhile, here in Udine… So I turned 31 this week and Udine celebrated the occasion with buckets of rain…like sheets of it. I even tried to take a photo of these torrential downpours but the rain was so solid, that it was hard to see individual drops—…
