The more we change, the more we stay the same – re-reading a classic
At the same time as sofagirl sat down to write her piece on why books matter, I woke up with jumbled thoughts in my head and sat down to write about re-reading a classic 35 years later. Sofargirl...
View ArticlePaying it forward, one coffee at a time
“See Naples and die” is an old Neapolitan saying that I don’t believe is related to the city’s notorious crime levels but, rather, to its beauty. Naples is a complex, contradictory, generous and...
View ArticleA life in the day of Gabriela M – how love can propel a dream
It’s easy to look back, halfway through a life, and see patterns, intersections crossed that don’t seem so random but it’s hardly ever the case when, to borrow from Dante, we are traversing our own...
View ArticleLove, Italian style
Elsa Morante, a famed Italian novelist who passed away in 1985, was once asked what is the most loving sentence one could hope to hear. The fellow writers on the…
View ArticleThe best run of my life
I wake up determined to go for a run. Two doughnuts from Pasticceria Tonolo is all the motivation I need. For the ten years I have been coming to Venice,…
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