Ahhh … la bella lingua Italiana. Don’t you just love the way the romance rolls off of your tongue and how even the taxi driver sounds sexy when he’s giving directions and over-estimating your cab fare? Italian is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and I’m not the first woman to fall...Read More
Last month I posted a survey for Italophiles and asked what the big deal is anyway, with this stiletto boot-shaped country. I mean, yes we have wine. Yes, we have cheese. We even have nice hills and valleys. But come on people … what’s to love? The answer was a resounding EVERYTHING. But to...Read More
You are right. I know what you are going to say and you are right … “but you live in Italy!!!” I know. Again … you are right. But still, the grass is always greener or you want you can’t have or maybe 30 years or so in one place will do that to a...Read More
I’m closing in on my first full week back in the bel paese and have just finished unloading my loot. With my creative airline connections and day-long London-based layover, I not-so-voluntarily had to reduce my amount of American-flavored imports. But some things always make the cut. Here is a quick pic of some of the...Read More
Of all of the American holidays, none is more important – or more heartbreaking to miss – than Thanksgiving. My hugely over-populated Catholic family all gathers around the table at my grandparent’s house in Honey Island, Texas – a suburb of the large metropolis of Kountze – and overeats, watches football, catches up on everyone’s...Read More
**Please return next week for your regularly scheduled installment of Travel Tip Tuesday.** Today is election day and Americans are hopefully heading to the polls in unprecedented droves to cast their votes for America’s Next Top President. And good for them, I say. With the drama and scandal of recent years, it would be easy...Read More
And no. Not “that” kind of girlfriend … more like this kind. I’m asked at least once by each new group of friendly B&Bers how I made the transition from southeast Texas to southern Italy. My response? “… tougher than I ever imagined.” There are endless considerations involved with a decision to relocate to a...Read More
One of the best things about keeping a blog (besides being a great way to give updates to friends and family, plus serving as a personal record on which to look back) has been the opportunities it’s afforded me to meet many wonderful people (both in person and long-distance). Even from the year leading up...Read More
It is that time of year again when the birds serenade us with their songs, children play outdoors, and the American girls in Calabria get together to discuss the state of our unions. We moved the Calabrian Womens Summit back two months this year from March to May, and while we weren’t able to celebrate...Read More
A great deal is written on this blog about my husband’s Italian and Calabrese culture, and how that meshes with my American and, sometimes seemingly more dominant, Texas heritage. It’s a fun mix to say the least. I wrote last week about where I was from, and I’ve shared personal stories, and travel ideas on...Read More
