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Figs and Borlottis
Fresh figs are in at the Saturday street market just a couple of blocks away, and they share the display with the magenta-splashed Borlotti bean pods! I bought some of both green figs and black, and...
Sweet Mary
Mary was sitting there at her desk when I stepped into the little back room adjoining the chapel at Milano's Cimitero Monumentale - the Monumental Cemetery. Now 87, she's given her time for close to...
Late Night Walk Home
A bunch of friends and I met up for a lecture at 9:15 pm at the Design Library. I walked almost a mile along the canals and side streets to meet them there. Afterwards, we all went out for a bite to...
Language Overload
Journal Entry: Sunday, June 10 - On the train returning home to Milano after a weekend in Nice, France, on the Côte d'Azur. My brain hit "overload" sometime yesterday (Saturday) in the language...
Porcini and Brooms
This is real Italian food. They're not over here just eating pizza and spaghetti. And they're NOT eating "Fettucine Alfredo"! (If you see it on a menu, it's only there for the tourists.) The range...
Talking Over the Fence
Standing in my skinny kitchen, washing the dishes, I heard a couple of women talking. I looked out my kitchen window and its security bars, across the long, common courtyard and saw two women...