In Love with France, At Home In Italy

• BEEF MUSIC:A SLOVENE FAVORITE WHICH IS ALSO A HIT WITH ME 5 months ago Last night when we visited our daughter-in-law's super-nice family for a most delicious dinner, I asked her very cute adolescent brother about the accordion on his bed. He had just started taking lessons four years ago when we were here for the wedding, and he already sounded good then. Ditto...
• IT'S 145 O'CLOCK IN BEAUTIFUL SLOVENIA! 5 months ago We are getting to know our son's adoptive country, and as helicopter parents with a first grandchild on the way, we expect to be spending increasing amounts of time here. Even though it's a seven-hour drive from our Italian home, this will not be such a sacrifice. This is a beautiful place...
• WELCOME TO SLOVENIA--A KNOCK-OUT COUNTRY! 5 months ago
• TOUCHING HOME BASE FOR THE 5TH AND 66th TIME:DECEMBER 25, 1946-2012 5 months ago Huh? Even though you probably knew I was bad at math, you may be saying what's she talking about? For a start, I am recognizing that although I turned 66 on December 25, this is my 5th birthday year in Orvieto. Here's the sequence of events that culminated in the rough night that produced...
• ON THE REBIRTHING PROCESS:DECEMBER 25, 1946-2012 5 months ago The “Hallelujah Chorus” is gloriously blaring, the mist over our valley is dissipating, and the hunters have temporarily stopped shooting (after all, it IS lunchtime in Italy). I’m thinking about letters: the one I posted here but never sent to Andre Aciman, the one Kafka...

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