Italian is like English with prepositions: appartamento in affitto, flat for rent, but German dispenses with the preposition and efficiently squishes together the nouns: Mietwohnung. “Oh, how nice,” my landlord says when I tell himRead More
Italy came the answer from a part of me that hadn’t spoken up in twenty years. Where in Italy? I asked. Northern Italy. In the mountains. Barely able to suppress the thrill of energy thatRead More
The weather app on my phone told me it was 80°F (27°C), a typical temperature for an early summer’s day. Upstairs in my small apartment on the rural outskirts of Healdsburg, California, I was sittingRead More