Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.