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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.

The Revelate
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Slow, Simple and Superb

I know I spend a lot of time on this newsletter (and in person) calling attention to the many screwed up schemes the principal architects of policy, those shapers of society, these Masters of Mankind, use to conspire, engineer and bully us into believing and accepting the crappy way in

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Aspects of a Novel

Or, Why What Happens Next Some years ago, back when this was a diabetes blog, I mentioned a particular fondness for a quote by the British writer E.M. Forster. The quote— How Can I Tell What I Think Till I See What I Say—comes from his book on

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Reunion

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Slow, Naive and Determined

Last week the New York Times ran an op ed titled Foodie Fever Dreams Can’t Keep Restaurants Afloat written by Vivian Howard, the chef and restaurateur behind Chef & the Farmer (amongst others) in Kinston, NC. Howard’s piece follows a bit of apparently “shocking” news regarding the impending

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Bardolatry

A decade ago this month, to begin the new year, I challenged myself to read, or in some cases re-read, one work of Shakespeare every month.

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My Revelate

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Compile the Scaffolding

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Pickle or Paradise?

The year closes with our first Christmas holiday in Sicily, away from family, asking ourselves more than ever the question: Is this the land of our dreams or put us in the tightest spot.

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Top 10 Meaningful Moments of 2022

Because it’s been an eventful year, we thought we’d hop on the bandwagon here and share a few of our top meaningful moments of 2022.

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Why I Decided to Publish My Novel Online

How to make a living with words when the publishing world only wants to make money.

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Healing Words

Two days before Christmas, my family and I were enjoying what passes for the usual holiday fare in our home when a moment arrived that no one had seen coming, changing our lives forever.

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How to Stop Spending Money

A series exploring the decisions, changes, and principles we stuck to that made moving to Sicily possible.




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