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Chronicling our return home from a year in Umbria and the preparations for our around-the-world journey.

April 05, 2020

Coping with Quarantine

April 05, 2020/ Michelle Damiani
Coping with Quarantine

You’ve heard the typical advice. Now read eight new ways to keep steady in an unsteady world.

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Michelle Damiani

Website for Michelle Damiani, author of Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center, the funny and heartfelt memoir of an American family living in Spello, as well as Santa Lucia, a page-turner set on the Umbria border. 

Rumors. Romance. And more than a little espresso.

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Festival participant, speaking about “Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center”

Festival participant, speaking about “Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center”

Featured speaker on panel discussing Romance for “Santa Lucia”

Featured speaker on panel discussing Romance for “Santa Lucia”