What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.