The Sweet Jar – Episode 11

“…she always strove to repair the small tears in the fabric of society to make things better, to leave things better than when she found them.”

The Color of Cream

They told me that although they didn’t remember many of the exhibits — they remember so strongly how that museum made them FEEL…

The Underworld

(This is also the transcript for the podcast Breathing Out Stars — Episode 31) There is a moon…

In attesa – waiting

While we watched an Italian game show, we packed. So it was extra easy the next morning to…

Questi stivali – these boots.

It was many years ago during a dermatological excision that we, in our family, learned that Nancy Sinatra…

Mercoledì

The city is hot.  We are on the numero 15 tram…stiamo andando in centro – we are going to…

Il cuoco — the chef.

I was told the most wonderful story. Thank you, A, for this. He knows that I have written…

Blue Grace

Episode 23. Blue Grace. It was Grace. It was pure, unadulterated grace. Like the old-fashioned kind. The Gift…

The Hanukkah of Fire & Light.

It was a hundred years ago and it was ten. It was a time when the world was a certain way — before it became a different kind of world, a certain other kind of way.