Sight Unseen

When I left Rome in 2007, I did so in furia e fretta. Harried. I was stuffing things into my [...]

On the eve of President’s Day, I found a photo that’s as close as I’ve ever gotten to a U.S. [...]

Every night, when I tuck my daughter Julia into bed, she asks me to tell her a story. For a [...]

My daughter Julia sprang out of bed the other morning declaring that she’d had a dream that we’d taken our [...]

One evening, I was telling my daughter Julia a bedtime story about Fassi’s, my favorite gelateria in Rome. I was [...]

Staring into his green-gold eyes, half closed in contentment, I stroke the top of his head and say to him, [...]

When I moved to New York after a decade in Italy to go to graduate school, working with audio was [...]

When I lived in Rome, I occasionally strolled through the fancy shopping streets near Piazza di Spagna. Mostly, I window [...]

When I was in college, I briefly considered a career in diplomacy. I’d never taken a political science course, and [...]

Every August, a box arrives on my front porch, marked “fragile,” although there’s nothing breakable inside. Just perishable. A dozen [...]

Like many people, I started riding a Peloton exercise bicycle during the pandemic. I’m not a huge fan of indoor [...]

I never thought that I would end up teaching, certainly not based on my halting early efforts. The summer after [...]