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With Just A Passing Knowledge of Italian, the Title’s Clear

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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Italy is no longer Italian

Yet Google Translate is required to parse the new “marauders,”
and that appellation leaves open the question, who does it fit?

“Arts Reside Here” No Longer, Alas

29 Friday Mar 2019

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On Our First Walk Around the Rocca, Graffiti Mars a Work of Art

28 Thursday Mar 2019

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My heart forbids iPhone to enshrine the crime.

(On a memory card, vandals are stymied for all time.)

Our Wide Terrazza See

28 Thursday Mar 2019

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A Different View This Year

A Border Crossing (in other words, “You Just Stay There?”)

27 Wednesday Mar 2019

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As the lady checked us out at passport control,
she could not help counting up our entry stamps.

“You must really like Italy,” she invited us to intone
the glories of touring and the grandure that is Rome.

Umbria, it turned out, may have surprised her a bit.
Spoleto, without doubt, put her expectations to rout.

Socking It to the Budget

11 Thursday Oct 2018

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On the way out of town, we just had to go back down the Corso. In what other way could a dear one fill the suitcases to the brim?

Cooking Lessons

11 Thursday Oct 2018

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After Mirella provided the recipe,
We made her minestrone at home.

Our version fell short of perfection.
So next trip she’s promised lessons.

A Wedding the Italian Way

11 Thursday Oct 2018

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The eating begins at 15:00 and doesn’t end until the day is done.
(In case you’re calculating, that’s nine hours of non-stop stuff.)

Of course a universal truth is observed: the bride is beautiful
And the guests of honor are delighted to witness the nuptials.


Cat on a Cool Spin Spoof

10 Wednesday Oct 2018

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With only poor excuses for the wit

The Devil Made Me Do It

09 Tuesday Oct 2018

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