Today is my 60th birthday.  60. Years. Old.  I’m a little stunned by it.  I’m not depressed about it because… Read more A Dog Attack, a Bicycle Race, and a Threshold Crossed

Our perfect weather streak came to an end today.  This morning was cloudy and foggy, then light rain in the… Read more A Day with Friends

Tuesday was another gorgeous day in the Valtiberino.  We started the day with a long walk through the country, some… Read more Peace is Good

There must be one.  Of all the things that Italy does well, food tops almost every list.  Certainly, it tops… Read more The Patron Saint of Good Eating

Sunday evening we went to the I Giorni di Bacco Sagra in Castiglion Fiorentino with Michelangelo and Rossella.  This means… Read more The Etrucsans and Bacchus

It’s Sunday morning and that means porchetta at the Monterchi market.  The Monterchi market is something else.  It is more… Read more Glimpses

We’re farmers.  OK, not really.  We inherited a robust garden that is populated with all manner of horticultural specimens.  We… Read more The Good Earth

Life is beautiful.  I don’t know why it seems so much more here than in Atlanta.  Maybe because I’m almost… Read more La Vita e Bella

We’re back in our Tuscan home.  We arrived Tuesday and are settling in.  Our flight from Atlanta to Amsterdam was… Read more Benvenuto!

Moving through this area you are reminded of just how ancient this civilization is.  Thousands of years of groups of… Read more It’s a Tuscan Thing