A Writer In Italy - travel, books, art and life

"Now I know why I keep a diary. I am not at peace until I continue the thread into the present. I am interested in analyzing myself, in trying to discover the reasons why I do such & such. I cannot d…

"The only joy in the world is to begin"  - Cesare Pevase

What do these people have in common?  Jean Cocteau, Cesare Pevase, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Kurt Cobain, Frida Kahlo, Anne Morrow Lindbergh…

"We often need to be alone to reconnect to life and to ourselves, which then allows us to connect more meaningfully to others" - Sarah Wilson, This One Wild and Precious Life

Welcome to Episode 57:

Sol…

“It’s not just the great works of mankind that make a culture.  It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it” - Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking

Welcome……
There is something about foo…

“Recipes are like stories. Once told then re-told, they become familiar and part of our families heritage. Families would share food and recipes with one another and through this organic process a cu…

"You can make the world beautiful just by refusing to lie about it" - Gio Ponti (1891-1979)

Welcome to Episode #54:

The last day of a travel adventure can be a quite distilling, generally it is a trick…

"Let us be honest: who hasn't wanted to be just a little bit Italian?' - Kay Plunkett-Hogge, Aperitivo.....

Welcome to Episode #53:

Have you ever wondered how the effervescent Spritz drink customarily …

“Sometimes I think we only half live over here.  The Italians live all the way” - 
Ernest Hemingway,  (letter to his sister)

Welcome to Episode #52:

Come with me on a journey to Turin, we will board the…

“I never travel without my diary.  One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”  -  Oscar Wilde

Welcome to Podcast #51

I thought it would be great to share a little more of the a…

“Place will have its way with you” - Frances Mayes, ‘See You in the Piazza’

Welcome to Episode #50

I am sun kissed and sharing this moment with you from Liguria.  I am in Camogli on the Italian Riviera…

"Whatever it is I am trying to preserve may not be entirely real, but it isn't altogether false" - Andre Aciman.....'Homo Irrealis, Essays'

Welcome to Podcast 49....And another in the moment share whi…

"These are the days that must happen to you” - Walt Whitman

Welcome to Episode #48

Ciao from Italy,

Salutations and greetings from the beautiful city of Parma in the region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.   I…

"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it's lethal" - Paul Coelho

Ciao from Italy.

I am on the Grand Canal recording this to share with you.  It is an off the cuff, on the wing travel share…

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world” - Anne Frank

Welcome to podcast #46 and my conversation with Allison Zurfluh.

Allison is a woman of many…

"First we eat, then we do everything else" - MFK Fisher

Welcome to Episode #45 and a lovely chat with Wendy from the Flavor of Italy Podcast. Recently Wendy launched her 100th Episode at Flavor of Ita…

“Italy as destination was lodged in my imagination and in my future”  -  Helen Barolini
Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy 

Welcome to Episode 44 and my wonderful conversation w…

“Who has not dreamed of going forth to meet the unknown in some new land, and thus in oneself” -  Helen Barolini
“Their Other Side: Six American Women & The Lure of Italy”

Have you ever thought of sta…

“We are all pilgrims who seek Italy” - Goethe

Have you ever dreamed of living in Italy?  The exciting news is that there is a wonderful opportunity for you to live your own La Dolce Vita and this epis…

“Dolce Far Niente is about living in the present - savouring every moment as if it's the last - while remembering that life truly is beautiful.  Let's never forget that" - Sophie Minchilli

This week I…

“Italy became magical and mysterious beckoning me” - Susan Van Allen 

Welcome to Episode #40:  

I am most delighted to share this conversation with Susan Van Allen about her updated 10th Anniversary Ed…