Posts under ‘Italy’

Enough already. Time to move on, time to be happy for what I got instead of mourning what I can’t have. I decided to bring the music back into my life. In October, this rather terrible month that only is surpassed in gloominess by November, it is so easy for me to dwell on sadness. Disperato [...]

Funny how life works. I work all night I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay — — no, wait. That was ABBA. Sorry. I took my little sister to the movie theater last week to see Mamma Mia and ever since I can’t stop myself from humming ABBA tunes at any given moment. I [...]

I want to stand with you on a mountain I want to bathe with you in the sea I want to lay like this forever until the sky falls down on me… Our neighbors in Amalfi played some Savage Garden every day. The evening before we left, as we were packing our bags, we did it [...]

Positano by night. Simply breathtakingly beautiful. I remember how we strolled along the beach and watched the town light up as the sky darkened. Positano is stunning at every moment of every day, but it is truly magical at night. I cannot imagine ever growing tired of that view, and I was very pleased to find that there [...]

Until today, I hadn’t mowed a lawn in 12 years or so. I had forgotten how much work it is. I like it here. Slowly we are turning this house into a home, and it is calm yet filled with life in a way the apartment never was. This is a place to live, not [...]