In college I majored in the British Romantics, Wordsworth to Yeats mainly. My job as a TA was to teach people how to read poetry aloud.

No way we weren’t going to stop at the Protestant Cemetery on our metro trip back from Ostia Antica. Continue reading →

From the minute we decided on our destination cities, Mary knew she wanted to see Ostia Antica. Continue reading →

Since I’ve been trying to learn how to paint with acrylics, I’ve learned that just about all painters work from existing images – whether it’s their own sketches or photographs, or images gleaned from all the other sources: books, magazines, Pinterest, etc. & so on.

I find this information extremely permission-giving. Continue reading →

Not so many weeks ago I called my best friend Mary and told her I’d discovered my bucket list and was relieved to find it had only one item: Go To Italy With Mary. Continue reading →