Suited Up for the Long Haul with Coronavirus Strategies
Yep, that's me, geared up for the weeks and months ahead. And, while protecting myself (and potentially others) is paramount, it's just one of my [...]
Yep, that's me, geared up for the weeks and months ahead. And, while protecting myself (and potentially others) is paramount, it's just one of my [...]
Reaching for my camera and reportage... In the often overwhelming heaviness of Italy's coronavirus crisis, it has been far too easy for me to shut [...]
Now is NOT the time to relax! I get it. I want to be done with the coronavirus crisis. I'm desperate for life to return [...]
What we're witnessing in Italy with the coronavirus crisis seems to bear this out. We'd hoped we'd be starting to see, through the coronavirus measures [...]
Vo, a small town just outside of Padova might show the way... I feel war-weary, waking up to mounting cases and death tolls in this [...]
Hospitals and medical services are struggling to keep up. That's the story of the coronavirus crisis that we're waking up to here in Italy. Lombardy [...]
Italy has been on lockdown but trains are still carrying people south. And most probably the coronavirus with them. Yes, even though the train schedules [...]
The latter certainly doesn't help the former. I woke up this morning, hoping to see that The President of the United States, in his address [...]
As of yesterday all of Italy is on lockdown as a result of the coronavirus In a matter of days, life here in Italy has [...]
And the unexpected is happening right now. I'm feeling it and seeing it more acutely being here in Veneto, one of the "hot spot" regions [...]
It all began in the 17th century in Venice with the term quaranta giorni (forty days). Currently, we're inundated with the coronavirus news and the [...]
It's been seven years for me... And when I compare my experience making the move from then to now, and after copious stories that I’ve [...]
January is the last harvest month of radicchio from Treviso And, many locals say the best comes last. From my vantage point here in Treviso, [...]
Yes, Naples Pizza IS! At least, to my discriminating taste buds. I've sampled incredible pizza all over Italy. Rarely have I been left wanting. I'd [...]
I applaud Italians for having created such colorful phrases. Italian idioms, in my opinion, kick butt on English idioms. And, if you're serious about going [...]
Okay, no more putting this off. I've been living in Italy for six-and-a-half years now, and I get along pretty well with my mid-intermediate Italian [...]
Don't trifle with these creatures. Cinghiale, which is a wild boar, can be found all over Italy. I've heard that, years ago, after their population [...]
You can as well, with a good strategy. If you don't know Lidl, they're all over Europe and they're a cleverly run chain of German [...]