Meet Your New Neighbor, Food There’s no question we need to do better when it comes to feeding a growing population. Kilometer Zero, a program started by the Slow Food Movement, has the potential to not only feed it but reshape the entire world.
The Sword of St. Michael Does one dog and this small monastery ruin outside the town of Troina hold the key to the Norman conquest over the Arabs in Sicily?
Checking the Box We began the blog, Without Envy, years ago to share our journey of raising a child with Type One Diabetes to live life to the fullest. We had no idea just how far the idea would take us.
Water, Water, No Where How Will We Live Without It? When I began my research for the story of water in Sicily, I had in mind a different sort of theme, one of selfish indifference, environmental disregard and unimagined consequences. After all what could be more telling of the situation here than a hurried
Entanglement For this month's Naked Truth, a never before published short story of real events which never happened but had they, they might've gone something like this.
Basta! Enough with the garbage debate already! Continuing my post last week in which I started a series on things we've found in Sicily to be subordinate to the American way of life. This one begs the question, is it really? In previous posts my only consideration for what
Out for an Aimless Walk Many things shape our coming to Sicily, but one near and dear to our hearts is the incredible opportunities to get outside and take an aimless walk.
Borders and Bureaucracy Presenting a series on a few things we found in our move from America to Sicily that made us see red, and occasionally white and blue.
10 Things We Found to be Very Much Better in Sicily America is well-known as the land of innovation, but we’ve found here in Sicily a few things that seem to be of much more superior design.