I have had Skype calls with Massimiliano for a year. Each week at the appointed hour (11:30 California time and 8:30 Italian time) we talked for an hour. We are friends but had never met one another. I had a plan to go Torino (Turin) a month ago but the week before the planned trip, [...]
I arrived in Bologna on Friday and Paolo, the 60ish orthodontist, met me at the airport. It was nice of him to meet me and I went with him to do some errands while we waited for Luca from the school to be free. We went to someplace, a friend of a friend, to pick [...]
Well, this is going to be a travelogue post. After all of the time for preparation I was SO antsy to leave. I’d checked and rechecked everything, covered every contingency and all systems were go. I dropped off my car at the storage place and got a ride with suitcases and laptop bag to the [...]
Some time back a fellow student at Italingua in Berkeley loaned me a book by Massimo Carlotto. The title was “ Il Corriere Columbiano” and it was in Italian. You can buy the book in translation, as well as some of his others on Amazon and presumably in some bookstores. However he is not well [...]
