Postcards from Paris
We’re no longer in Paris (took the train to Turin for a few days, now we’re in a seaside town near Rome), but I’m sending you a few postcards of windows I admired there. On lèche les vitrines!
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In the Neighbourhood, Walking to Italy . . .
In this post, I return to a little series I call “Walking, Wearing, Listening” in which I share photos of what I wore on a neighbourhood walk along with photos of that neighbourhood — and tell you a bit about a podcast I listened to. In this post, the podcast will take me (and you, should you care to join me) to Naples, even as I walk the streets around me here in Vancouver. Walk with me?
View PostItalian Lessons On Sicily
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation to my Saturday morning Italian class on my recent trip to Italy. Some readers kindly encouraged me to share the written version here — with an English translation, of course. And a few photos. Click through if you’d like to meet my Inner Italian, Francesca.
View PostBack to Sicily, on a Sunday. . .
One afternoon last month, we stepped from the noisy bustle of Palermo’s Via Maqueda into the quiet hallowed space of a Baroque chapel where I sketched and we drank in the restorative architectural beauty and the deep resonance of centuries of use. Join me for a few minutes in revisiting that well of peace again?
View PostSix Sicilian Things Saturday
A Five Things Friday post that somehow turned into Six Things Saturday. And since readers have been curious about my time at a Sketching Workshop in the Sicilian countryside. . . I give you Six Sicilian Things this Saturday. . . A little weekend diversion. Hope you enjoy!
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