L ast week we got off the grid. Back to nature. No phones, no email, no blogging. Took hikes, cooked, read three books (analog), shot pictur...

I am writing this as an outsider; one who loves the wines of the Langhe. And as an outsider I am blinded by distance but clarified by the ...

From the archives - posted 12/27/09 from the "uchronic meanderings" department Thursday Aug 4 T he trip out of Rustic Tuscany...

from the archives - posted 7/2/09 I t seems like everyday we get another headline announcing the passing of someone who was part of the lar...

"Canta pure, Grillo mio, come ti pare e piace" D ining out the other night, we ordered a wine, a simple Rosso di Montepulciano. ...

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."- Niccolo Machiavelli M oney seems to be on everyone’s mind. The European...

"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.”― Rod Serling Y esterday on NPR’s Marketplace Kai Ryssdal ...

Il Prezzo del Potere “W hat do you think of Gaja’s Brunello?” a wine enthusiast sidled up behind me and asked. It’s the kind of question I...

T here are many more qualified to offer their thoughts on the subject, but for some reason as I was jogging I couldn’t get these ideas out o...

and other remembrances on this day...    I remember that sinuous ceramic floor, on top of the building on Via Roma. Of all things, why t...

"All this happened, more or less."  W hy are people attracted to certain things? I’ll never know. One of my most humiliating m...

T hat was the question I posed on a Facebook page two months ago. I have been thinking about it for some time now, and doing active resea...

I ’m here but I’m not really here. Sipping on all kinds of Italian wine, I have been tripping back and forth between Sicily, Umbria, ...

  I was waiting in a long, slow line on the freeway for the traffic to pass by an accident on the side of the road. As often happens...

T he picture above is of a window from a Sicilian winemaker's winery to his home. The little hole in the bottom is room enough for ...