Hi there!
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.
Basta!
Enough with the garbage debate already! Continuing my post last week in which I started a series on things we've found in Sicily to be subordinate to the American way of life. This one begs the question, is it really? In previous posts my only consideration for what
Out for an Aimless Walk
Many things shape our coming to Sicily, but one near and dear to our hearts is the incredible opportunities to get outside and take an aimless walk.
Borders and Bureaucracy
Presenting a series on a few things we found in our move from America to Sicily that made us see red, and occasionally white and blue.
10 Things We Found to be Very Much Better in Sicily
America is well-known as the land of innovation, but we’ve found here in Sicily a few things that seem to be of much more superior design.
Lago Ancipa
A 12km hike around Lake Ancipa in the Nebrodi National Park of Sicily offers a wonderful, relaxing and often unpeopled trekking experience.
The Story of a House
How the poem Eros Turannos helped me see beyond the death of my father and understand better the joy and happenstance of sharing a life together.
This is a Mistake
The trials, errors and revelations of moving to Sicily
Penso di Sì (I think so)
We'd done everything we could to be prepared so that I could swiftly and efficiently take up Italian residency. Why did this seem harder than it should be?
The Lever and Fulcrum
Our life in Sicily is not that different from our life in America in that we arrived here with the same passion to be part of a community.
Spilling My Words
It's been said that writers and artists cannot fail, that just becoming one is a success. Tell that to a starving artist denied a bank loan.
Montebello
Mount Etna, or Montebello (beautiful mountain), as it is known throughout Italy—Muncibbeḍḍu in Sicilian for those wondering—is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe with the height as of July 2021 measured at 3,357 m (11,014 ft), though this varies with summit eruptions. It is
The One on Saeculum
Etruscans, B Corp and climate change. What does any of this have to do with ending a long debate and lending a hand to the next generations?
