I'm Back.
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You’ve got questions about my return to American life—the reverse culture shock, the grief of leave-taking. The answers may surprise you.
Read MoreChronicling our return home from a year in Umbria and the preparations for our around-the-world journey.
Wild Asparagus and Me
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How a single stalk of wild asparagus can be ever so much more than that.
Read MoreVillage-Schooled
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Our kids are getting an education the likes of which we dared not dream.
Read MoreAn Italian village, sucker-punched by COVID
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The pandemic hit Spello in ways I hadn’t imagined.
Read MoreWhat can I say?
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No, really. I find myself with writer’s block about how to tell you about our release from quarantine.
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Who said it would be easy?
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We decided we’d swap our year around the world for a more pandemic-compliant year based in Spello and then the virus ground in deeper and the EU said, “thanks but no thanks.”
Read MoreHow to Wait
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In which Nicolas, at age 14, writes about his misadventures on our Spello stoop.
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A Spello Homecoming
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Laughter bloomed like dandelions in a field of sunshine. Everything was shinier, rosier, more glowing, more dramatic, more emotional, more vivid. I started wondering about why and then thought, “Because Italy.”
I stopped wondering.
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