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Being in Italy

Living every day - more or less gracefully - in Italy

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Mortadella - the life and times of a gigantic salami

or, what do Sophia Loren, the game of chess, and the city of Bologna all have in common?

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 9.13.1989 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 9.30.1989 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 3.11.1992 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 11.25.1991 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

St. John's Water / L'Acqua di San Giovanni: an Italian solstice tradition that reportedly brings health, prosperity, love, and good fortune (and you do not have to be in Italy to prepare it)

The preparation of St.

Slow TV: Piano and Flying Carpet

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Slow TV: Alpine Cows by Lago Federa in the Italian Dolomites

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Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 6.14.1990 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 10.8.1990 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 1.14.1993 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 3.30.1992 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 1.31.1993 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Paradise of Exiles: Di Qui Non Si Passa! (From here, no one passes!)

Motto of the Alpini, or Black Feathers, the Italian army's specialist mountain infantry

Librorum: Little Free Libraries in the Veneto

It's Little Free Library Week (May 17-23, 2026)!

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 12.18.1990 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 3.4.1992 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 10.2.1990 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 5.22.1990 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 11.16.1989 (Memoir)

Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s