In 1976, when I received the draft card, I was working as a teacher in a small village in the [...]

Over the millennia, humans have used written language to communicate, to pass information, to narrate a story, an experience, to [...]

If you are a reader, and a voracious reader, you will probably never know how many books you have hoarded [...]

Apulia’s land’s end, Italy’s south-easternmost tip, is known as Capo di Santa Maria di Leuca. It is a roughly triangular [...]

Between 1995 and 2002, I worked as a volunteer for the Comunità Emmanuel (CE), a charity in Lecce, in the [...]

It was on a hot and sad Monday morning that I discovered the disappearance of my wet waste “poubelle agréée,” [...]

It was a rainy spring this year in Salento and in much of the rest of Italy. It was also [...]

I spent my childhood and adolescence in a small village. It was not one of those one-bar places you sometimes [...]

The animal world has charmed me since childhood. I remember leaving breadcrumbs on the windowsill for sparrows, goldfinch, and robins. [...]

I was born in 1950, a full-blown boomer, on the edge of a village in southern Italy. Mothers did not [...]

There was a time when the village was alive with voices, voices of artisans who sang while working, voices of [...]

Since my early teens, I had free access to my father’s bookshelves. I have been an avid reader since childhood. [...]