Transumanza 2024

Celebrating our donkey on Endangered Species Day This past weekend we had the pleasure of taking part in our town's 2024 Transumanza, which is, you may recall from our post on last year's event, the practice, or, in official animal husbandry-speak, transhumance, of moving livestock from

On Sicily

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Coming Home

Or, the Arms of the Octopus We are back in Sicily this week after a brief visit to the U.S. for a much needed family get-together. On the long transatlantic journey I found myself thinking of Troina and the lives we were returning to. This was not our first

Earth Day (wink wink)

sign up now and get a free tote bag (not really) In a bit of continuation from my mini-rant last week about BCorps and the bullshit companies have been trying to sell us on their operations and specifically, their impact on people and planet, comes Earth Day, the biggest greenwashing

Measures that Matter

Into the mystic volcanic vortex of incredible awe, elegance and inspiring transcendence

Hi, there. We're back from an easter week trip to Poland, which was entirely amazing and should be on everyone's list of places to visit, especially the town of Warcław (pronounced Vrotswaff), where you can spend the day seeking out the some 1,000+ bronze figurines

Comfort Moon

The experience of awe can arrive at any time, even in those moments we'd consider the most dangerous.

The One Where We Interview Ourselves

It's a Shrimp's World

Hello, friends, I don’t really have much to say this week. One of us has been under the weather and when one doesn't click, it seems, neither of us clicks—okay, that's just me, I'm a sucker for a good excuse to do

Be Invincible

What I might say to my daughter and her other college graduates as they look toward the future in this unfair, inequitable world.