It was last January 6, Befana Day in Italy, aka Epiphany (“manifestation” in Greek; sudden intuitive leap that lands in a flash of understanding about…
The choir went to Orvieto yesterday, Sunday 3 December, first Sunday in Advent. Very cold, even colder inside the church… but very beautiful. Here, the…
David_Baccalaureat_Chateaubriand Yesterday was the graduation ceremony for David. He received his Baccalauréat from the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rome, after two years here. He did very…
A walk in Rome’s Parco della Caffarella at sunup on 22 April to explore the ancient sites of the Sacred Grove and the Egeria source…
For the past several days there has been a definite sense of spring in the air. So I took my camera with me on the…
On 4 February 2006 I walked along the Via Appia Antica with the French culture group Rome et Son Histoire. We visited many of…
6 January 2006. Decided to figure out how to use the new Olympus Christmas present this morning, Befana Day in Italy, so everything was closed.…
The cat I met on the way back from the Palazzo Chigi in the spring. © 2005-2014, J.Crews