Everything Tagged ‘Southern Italy’

The Laundry Line

On a slow moving Sunday afternoon I went back to and old file on my computer titled IN PROGRESS WRITING. As I had imaged there was the sketch of an essay in there titled “Clothes Line” created on March 5, 2006. I am not sure I have opened it since until today. But clearly there has been a...

December 20th, 2011 | Blog | Read More

Mezzogiorno

Yesterday the thermometer clocked in at 41 degrees Celsius. This translates to 105 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature I have experienced in my 35 years. Yes, it’s a different kind of heat….less humidity, but the sun just beats down differently here and I witness as the world around...

July 18th, 2011 | Blog | Read More

Come Mai?

Last weekend I traveled north to Florence, the city where my new life in Italy began. Well actually it began in Termoli, but that is another story entirely. I stayed in my old apartment and bounced around from bar patio to bar patio catching up with friends that I’d hardly spoken to since moving...