I love looking out my kitchen window this time of year and seeing the violet flowers blooming in my garden. These tiny flowers invoke very special memories for me. When I was a little girl I would pick tiny little bouquets of violet flowers and give them to my mom to be put in small
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It was the first day of our trip to Italy. I knew we were going to need a good breakfast to keep us going through the day on our tour of the Vatican. We were staying in an apartment in a 19th century building conveniently located near the Vatican Museums. It was also just across
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A Travel Guide to Rome and Southern Italy Over the next few weeks I’ll be doing a series of posts called Discovering Italy, where I’ll be exploring the city of Rome and the regions of Campania, Basilicata and Puglia in Southern Italy. I’ll be sharing with you everything I learned about the food, history and
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A few years ago I invited some family and friends to join me for a special dinner on Easter Sunday. The table guests included my mom Kitty, a former Catholic nun for whom Easter celebrations were dear and her from church, Dorrie, who is like an aunt to me and the kind of person who
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Have you ever had a dream of traveling to a far off destination that seemed totally out of reach, but then actually had it happen? That’s exactly what happened to me a few years ago after watching a movie called “The Trip to Italy.” The film stars British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, who
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