Today is all about celebrating BIRTHDAYS: My Sister's Birthday – BUON COMPLEANNO SUSAN! – A Great Writer's Birthday, and The Upcoming Birthday of Lorenzo in July which WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE WITH A PARTY IN ITALY ON LAKE COMO (more details below)! But first, a...
CHE GIOIA!! WHAT JOY the National Team of Italy gave us this past month during the Euro 2020 championship!! The team played with enthusiasm, confidence, style – and best of all, THEY WON!! And you can believe, like Italians all over the world, Lorenzo and I...
I grew up with parents who loved opera. Every Saturday afternoon, my father would set up a card table in the family room with his large FM stereo radio. Then he would sit down with the ever-present piles of paperwork from his office and work to LIVE FROM THE MET....
Ever since since I arrived in Milan for the first time in May 1800 I have loved that city. There I knew the greatest happiness and the greatest pain; there above all I had my first experience of pleasure, which makes a place a home. There I desire to...