Olympic melodies moved me
With the Paralympic Winter Games in full swing and the Olympics just concluded, I should be writing about ski jumping, [...]
What has become of the USA?
I live in a small village in the countryside of south Apulia, not far from the place where I was [...]
After the summer upheaval
Summer is the season of scorching sunshine, of people flocking to seaside resorts, of sunbathing on golden beaches, of evenings [...]
Popes of my life, part 3
On the morning of February 11, 2013, the World Day of the Sick, I was sitting in front of my [...]
Popes of my life, part 2
The year 1978 was the year of three popes, two papal funerals, two Conclaves, and two papal elections. This all [...]
Popes of my life
I was eight years old when I learned that Pius XII, the first pope in my life, was ill. At [...]
From Alezio with love
Emigrants convey their native culture to every far corner of the world where they move in their quest for jobs [...]
Chance encounters
I came across The American | In Italia for the first time in 2019, while I was searching for something [...]
A pair of red shoes
It was an August afternoon, almost twilight, in the mid-nineties, and I was sitting on a veranda overlooking the Adriatic [...]
South to Salento, part 2
In addition to the tour in the old town of Lecce, in her article “South to the Salento,” Patience Gray [...]
South to the Salento, part 1
Thirty-three years ago, the “Sophisticated Traveler,” the travel supplement of the New York Times, published an article by the eminent [...]