Fellini's 8 1/2 - re sampled for today . Very cool.

This post is meant to serve as an explanation for whenever I use the Fantasy Island label. This simple key is this: Whenever I write a post ...

For the record, just so nobody gets any wild ideas, I am thinking of doing some interview type posts that are totally made up; fantasies, sp...

It is scalding. The car is hot; we search for a shade spot to park while we crawl into the next account to proffer our selection. Today, bei...

A few pictures from the home garden. The winter garden in transition. Arugula and Italian Parsley re cycling. In the back, Cardoons expecti...

In the Veneto, legend has it that a monk got into a little trouble with the devil. The monk, Fra Stefano, wanted to make the greatest wine ...

”What was it like?” I remember my aunt asking me later, about walking into the village where her mother was born. Old Calabria, a little v...

On to Calabria!

Something that’s been bugging me off and on is words to describe things that are taken from another word which has another context. About on...

Where does one go after they jump off the Italian peninsula? One journey I recently made took me back about 200 years to Portugal, Oporto an...