Here, because why not?
Part Three of the question: Why here? What is it about Troina that drew us here? My answer may surprise you.
Fair Winds and Full Sails
Hi there! If you follow The Revelate on social media (Instagram and Facebook) you may have noticed we’ve made some changes to those platforms, starting with our handle, what we call ourselves. While the posts, reels and other material we’ve shared there captures well our thoughts on longing,
Who Am I?
Our own self-image is one of the hardest things from which we must sometimes learn to part. My family gave me this guitar sixteen years ago for my 42nd birthday. It was an expensive and lovely and completely unreasonable gift. The kind you give an adult-man-child who thinks they know
Cheese
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Who You Love is Where You Belong
As part of my series I'm sharing this month on place and happiness, I thought for Franca's birthday, which arrives this week, I'd share a photo montage of all the places we've lived together. A kind of subliminal introspection that we might have the whole damn thing backwards. That the
Does Where you Live Even Matter?
An article recently appeared in the New York Times which caught my attention for obvious reasons. The Bargain You Make Living in America May No Longer Hold was written by an opinion piece editor who writes mostly about politics and so I almost didn’t read it because, honestly, I’
A Eulogy for Another Day
In memory of my friend, Mike Russo
Why Troina?
Part Two of the question: Why here? What is it about Troina that drew us here?
The One Revelate I Regret
Or, Longing to be Normal I made a mistake. A couple of weeks ago, in a post in which I wrote about staying in control of our life’s direction. I said that the bakery in Tarboro had been a mistake. I called it a failure to be exact. It
Update on our Italian Driver's Licenses
You'll remember a couple of months ago when I wrote about taking and not passing the driver's exam (I refuse to say fail here as this test is not pass/fail. It's you got questions to answers you happen to know, or the gods were against you and you didn't
The Robert Capa Museum of Troina, Sicily
The "Father of Photojournalism" captures the exceptionally personal story of conflict and the devastating effects of violence on the lives of those in its midst.
Operation Husky
The Allied Invasion of Sicily, 1943 This month marks the 80th anniversary of the allied invasion of Sicily, a major campaign of World War II, which, though fraught with terrible decision-making, the cosmically, un-empathetic egos of Generals Patton and Montgomery, and rotten weather conditions, ended in the first defeat of