Y esterday morning, very early, I had this odd sensation. I remember lying in bed, as I have done for the past month, recovering from full-k...

After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Fo...

 In memory of Lizanne Feb.14,1953 - Feb.17,2001 H as it really been twenty years? I only knew her for fourteen years. She’s been gone long...

Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? Hard to imagine, but it is. 15 years since Lizanne took her leave. ...

After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Fo...

I’ ve been living in this house of mine for longer than I have ever lived in any one place. We moved here when the family got a little big...

Non dimenticherò mai Photo by Domantis

I pulled out the bottle of 2000. Around this time it was being born, right about that time we were watching her last sunrise, she was breat...

A nother year has come and vanished. Another harvest. And the new oil is now here. New oil, showing us the promise of the harvest in its sha...

In what seemed a lifetime ago, I remember watching her as she waved through the window. It was one of many departures that would torment our...

Happy Valentine's Day , wherever you are ... written by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail in Italy

Yesterday would have been Liz and my 11th anniversary. On our third (and last) anniversary, in 2000, we were given a bottle and encouraged t...

It must have been 20 years ago when the little VW Jetta took us down the road to Hillsboro, Texas, with Bob Marley wailing “ I don’t want to...

The Dream: I walk into an ancient Italian restaurant where I used to work that no longer exists. Ali is standing by the salad pick-up line, ...

200th post It’s 5AM and I’m staring at cameras on a shelf, wondering which one to choose, to photograph a shadow. A €2.00 Euro coin, and pot...

Wine? My first love ? What one wants to say is really impossible to tell. It was a soft and easy love, it was forgiving and unforgettable. I...

A spot of heaven on earth. From the center of one of the least known but well loved regions to Americans. Art, hills, green hills, deep spir...