We expected trouble when we boarded the plane with our four-month-old twins. It was their first flight, a nine-hour transatlantic redeye to Rome. It seemed so obvious that it would be a miserable trip that my boss had given us a travel gift: a pair of talismans with a glass depiction of an eye, to […]
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Will Rome Still Be Rome?
29-May-16“Don’t Worry… He’s More Afraid of You…”
29-Apr-10El Viso del Alcor A few days of emotional chaos, perfectly reflected by the weather: cold, rain, sleet, snow – yesterday I woke up to find half-an-inch on the ground. The wind has been astonishing, shaking the house, raising great swells of sound up from the mountain. Clarity emerged, and I wrote a letter, which I resolved to carry […]