Bailey Alexander: Dreams from Northern Italy

…loom large in our hearts. ~ Gastone in Loazzolo, Piemonte, Italia

I interviewed Gary Lachman on our podcast a few years back, and he’s always writing and thinking; about other writers and thinkers. In this article he covers some huge topics and blends them together. He starts out discussing the trouble we’re in…. In his monumental Study of History, a vast, twelve volume work that he laboured…

Here I am riding the elevator, going up, getting older, sliding in to 60 and suprised to say it feels just fine. This last trip, we stayed @ The Hilton in Venice, a 5 star hotel. My guy had points, a great hotel, yet immense. I’d rather walk along the streets of La Serenissima then…

Here’s a list of names for Italian easting establishments. Actually, I think there’s more: Pesceria, Rosticceria, Pizza a Taglio, Taverna…

Overnight trip to Venice and the weather was perfect. Finally I booked in advance – it’s the only way to reserve a table; they have two settings, one at 7, then at 9:30. The restaurant is called Osteria Enoteca Ai Artisti, reasonably priced and the four of us had an absolutely fantastic time. I only…

Another trip around the sun, another birthday; like life – they happen so fast. So we went to LeFay resort where we could delude ourselves life can slow down. Where I could celebrate and my guy could relax. Moody day on Lake Garda and looking into infinity….pool. Feeling gratitude, looking forward to another trip around…

The Marginalian by Maria Popova: Autumn is the season of ambivalence and reconciliation, soft-carpeted training ground for the dissolution that awaits us all, low-lit chamber for hearing more intimately the syncopation of grief and gladness that scores our improbable and finite lives — each yellow burst in the canopy a reminder that everything beautiful is…

I agree – these trees – but oh, I will miss those leaves…