HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

By |2014-09-17T17:06:43-04:00July 4th, 2014|Categories: Personal Musings, Politics|Tags: , , , |

  Today, on Independence Day, I spent a little time with the father of my country. No, it wasn’t in a séance or in the District of Columbia, which honors his name. It was in the Cascine Park in Florence, Italy where George Washington is memorialized. A month earlier, I [...]

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A NEW ROOM WITH A VIEW

By |2014-09-17T06:10:21-04:00April 28th, 2014|Categories: Personal Musings|Tags: , |

  After spending the first few months of this year with doctors, dentists, accountants, Indian chiefs and candlestick makers, followed by the launch of my third novel, The Ultimate Revenge, the conclusion to "The Simon Trilogy," Joe and l returned to Italy. The month of March whisked by swiftly as [...]

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FESTA DELLA REPUBBLICA

By |2014-09-17T06:13:24-04:00June 3rd, 2013|Categories: Personal Musings, Travel|Tags: , |

  After an intense week of writing, I treated Joe and myself to a full weekend of play. While Noble's Quest was debuting in NYC at the BookExpo America, we began our weekend shopping for quail at the Mercato Centrale in the Piazza near the church of San Lorenzo, and [...]

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ISN’T HE ROMANTIC?

By |2016-10-19T09:46:47-04:00May 6th, 2013|Categories: Personal Musings|Tags: , |

  Last week Joe and I celebrated thirty-four years together...okay, it was our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary, but you gals know that you have to add in the time invested! It was a beautiful sunny day, and as I headed off for an appointment, I noticed our new car was covered [...]

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INSPIRATION POINT

By |2016-10-19T09:46:47-04:00January 14th, 2013|Categories: Personal Musings, Travel, Writing|Tags: , |

  This is where my career as a writer began, sitting on the wall with the beautiful historic center of Florence spread before me and the eleventh century Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, complete with a bishop’s palace, at my back. The Florentines often refer to it as the [...]

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