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I have to say that I have found a whole new community of friends here at Il Sasso. Today we had Alberto in the morning, and Costanza told us in the afternoon that he thought we had done very well … Continue reading →

“It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may … Continue reading →

My avventura is winding down. Three more days of class, and then I take the bus, then train a Roma and then the Leonardo Express to the airport B&B.  After the whirlwind of Florence, even this extreme estroversa needed some … Continue reading →

In between the Uffizi and Davide, we went to a video art show by Bill Viola, a video artist and colleague of Marina’s, in Palazzo Strozzi. It was so interesting, and the movement in each presentation was mainly in slow … Continue reading →

Zoe (16), Marina, (45) from Russia who lives in London, and I took the bus and the train to Florence yesterday afternoon. Zoe has never been. Our apartment is one block from San Lorenzo and one block from Mercato Centrale … Continue reading →

This is my favorite word in Italian. It’s a little like my favorite word in German: Lebenschmittelgeschaft, which means grocery store. This one, chiachierrarebbero means: they would chit chat. Chiachierrare is a great verb because it sounds like what it … Continue reading →