The little town in which I live is celebrating the “Slow Food” movement (Cittaslow”) this weekend. The movement began in 1986 as a protest against McDonalds opening a unit near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Today, there are chapters in […]
Looking For A Good Deal
We have a walkway underneath the porticos in our little town’s piazza. Several days a month it gets filled up with pedestrians: Locals, Tourists, X-pats and more. It’s not the Champs Elysee, it’s more like a river of […]
A = B+C (…if A =’s 2, and B =’s 3, then C must Equal Minus 1. Right?
Mr. Stevens, my algebra teacher in the 7th grade, heard Davey Sargent laughing in the back of the classroom. He put down his chalk and told us there was too much laughter in the room and in the world. He […]
All In All A Good Time Was Had By All
At one end of our Piazza there is a church – La Santa Croce. At the other end is the ‘Commune’ (The government building) The church is about 200 years old. The locals tend not to get married in the […]
The More Things Change, The More They Change
The town I live in was a market town a thousand years ago and we still have a market in the piazza at least once a week. I first came here, for a six year visit, about thirty years ag0. […]