In 1958, Domenico Modugno, singer from the small Sicilian island of Lampedusa, wrote the famous song Volare. My guess is that most everyone knows the song, right? But what most people outside of Italy don’t know is that the original title of the song was Di Blu, Dipinto di Blu, [...]
Hello from Villa Saracena. Last evening's first yoga session of the week was dreamy. We focused on stretching our lower backs, hip flexors, and shoulders. We did a lot of side bending and yoga poses to decompress the well-traveled body. We focused on the breath and what a pleasure to [...]
How about if I make this all photos? That way I can post it without delay and get to sleep! Photos from our fabulous last day in Siracusa at the market, il mercato, where we had so much fun chatting with the vendors and taking it all in: terrace [...]
On Wednesday evening, Marilyn and I arrived in Catania so very tired. We traveled from Seattle to Frankfurt to Rome to Catania. Sometimes I wonder how just sitting in a on a plane can create such exhaustion. Is it the stale air on the plane or is it the body’s [...]
Once upon a time I was going to write a blog post titled In Her Shoes, but I never wrote it. After my mom passed away and I had to help go through her belongings, I discovered that her brand-new never-worn shoes and her barely-worn vintage size 8 shoes somehow [...]
