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The Daily Cure for me is trying to smell taste touch—really experience— something, each day, that reminds me that I'm alive and, mostly, happy to be here. A small moment that should go a long way, at least in theory.-
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Postcard #16: A lotta spice is nice
Being an expat is a peculiar arrangement. You live in country X, but you are forever bound to country O—”O” as in “origin.” Technology has made this a much easier affair. All the lovely webby ways that we are connected … Continue reading
Posted in POSTCARDS
Tagged chiles, ex-patriotism, Hatch, New Mexico, postal service, spice
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No martini, no Bond
This blog is called “The Daily Cure” because several years ago when I started it, I realized that just being in Europe sort of made me feel better in a lot of ways. And I began to catalog the small … Continue reading
Some TLC for you
How are you feeling, dear Reader? Are you stuck between seasons? Do you have a runny nose or a tickly throat? Have you been hit, as I have, with your first flu of the season? Do you, regardless of your … Continue reading
My Primo love
The list of adult books I would read over and over (and over) again is not long. It includes Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. And The Worst Intentions by Alessandro Piperno. But the most … Continue reading
Posted in ITALY, SO NOTED
Tagged chemistry, elements, Fascism, humanity, literature, Primo Levi, the Holocaust, The Periodic Table
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Eggplant parmesan
I told you my posts would be briefer these days, out of necessity. And so they will. Ironic, then, that the topic of today’s post is a dish that isn’t quite so quick to whip up. But so yummy…and every … Continue reading
Posted in ITALY, SAVORING
Tagged eggplant, eggplant parmesan, Salumeria Alberti, stripy eggplant
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Beautiful, bilingual, macaronic mash-up
What I overheard last weekend coming from my daughters’ bedroom: It’s the kind of thing the older one says, with facility, howling with laughter. An alliterative, language-loving mixture of her two mother tongues. Something I could never hope to concoct, … Continue reading
Posted in ITALY, THEY SAY
Tagged alliteration, bilingual, childhood, fairytales, growing up, macaronic verse
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Milan color story #7: Metro-palette
I was scheduled to meet a friend last week at the Lanza Metro. We hadn’t seen each other in months and were long overdue for a cappuccino. I was early. So I parked myself above the steps leading out of … Continue reading
Posted in AROUND US, COLOR, ITALY, WHAT WE WEAR
Tagged clothes, fashion, lanza, metro station, metropolitana, Milan, MIlano
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“The Random-at-Best Non-Remedy”
I’m back. Again. It’s getting silly, isn’t it? I say I’m coming back, I stick around for a while, then I disappear again. What’s up with that? Well, I’ll tell you, my friends. In a nutshell, the problem is Time, … Continue reading
Posted in ITALY, SO NOTED
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Postcard #15: Auxerre in layers
[Dear You, Sometimes in these old European cities it’s hard to separate all the layers. Where does foreground end and background begin? Where does past stop and present start?]
Posted in FRANCE, POSTCARDS
Tagged big town, Bourgogne, Burgundy, France, route D606, small town, Vermenton
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