Time Travel: Ravello, Italy 2003

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How do you spell heaven? For me, it is R-a-v-e-l-l-o, a sun-splashed hill town along the Amalfi Coast. Hoyt and I spent a few days there in 2003. This post was going to be Italy, Part II (with Sienna, Florence, and Pompeii) but HELP, I’m stuck in Ravello, and I can’t get out! … [Read more…]

Time Travel: Italy 2003

Really—Italy 2003? Twelve years ago? As my husband asks, “If time flies, where does it go?” He’s a philosopher. He has great ideas. I love this one: he suggested I write a post about nothing, you know, Seinfeld-style. We love Jerry Seinfeld. So this post, at least this one line, is for Hoyt. Nothing, … [Read more…]

Again. Mental Illness & Guns

posted in: On My Mind 14

I cannot write another post without honoring, today, the innocent lives in Oregon ended by a mentally ill person with guns. Mental health counselors, police officers, parents, relatives, friends, all of us bystanders around the world send our condolences, once more, to horrified, grief-stricken families. We’re all grief-stricken. Prayers do not work on … [Read more…]

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