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This is Steve and Franca. Welcome to our newsletter about surrendering your heart to longing, forging meaningful purpose and finding your place in the world.
Is Changing the World for the Better in Need of a Reckoning?
The cost of doing good and the myth that everyone pays their fair share and the richest pay the most.
Staying Upright, Moving Forward, Part Three
The final chapter in our series of starting a business in Sicily shares how we are trying to stay in the zone despite a serious setback.
Palazzolo Acreide
Featured Town When we arrived in Sicily in September 2021, nine months before moving here permanently, we left the U.S. feeling adrift and seeking to put a new wind in our sails. The pandemic had left us, like so many others, languishing in whatever direction life took us. So
The Festival of San Silvestro
Troina, the town in which we’ve chosen to settle in Sicily, is a very ancient city and was throughout both Greek and Roman times an important military stronghold due its geographical status, which, as you can see, offers commanding views in every direction, from Mount Etna to the Nebrodi
Food for Thought
Gioacchino Rossini, the Italian composer famous for The Barber of Seville, wrote once that appetite is to the stomach what love is to the heart. If that’s true—and I have every reason to believe it is—then Sicily is both Demeter’s fork and cupid’s arrow. You
