This is a Mistake
An occasional catch-all roundup of trying, failing, and moving on, and many other rhapsodies of dropping everything to move half way around the world.
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.
Why Troina?
Part Two of the question: Why here? What is it about Troina that drew us here?
Crunching Numbers to find the Right Words
Part One of the question: Why here? A Comparative Cost Analysis of Living in Sicily vs. the US
Belonging
A series exploring the decisions, changes, and principles we stuck to that made moving to Sicily possible.
How to Stop Spending Money
A series exploring the decisions, changes, and principles we stuck to that made moving to Sicily possible.
How Quitting a Job 15 Years Ago Made Moving to Sicily Possible
When Quitting is not Quitting, But Just Rebelling Better The final scene in the 2016 film Captain Fantastic involves no words, no gestures, no finishing, fading camera shots. It didn’t involve much of anything, really. Just the turn of a head from a table of children starting their day
This is a Mistake
The trials, errors and revelations of moving to Sicily
Taking Stock
It begins months, maybe years even, before you are born. The great pursuit, acquisition and assemblage of stuff. To keep and grow it we build houses around it, attach garages and rent sheds to park it, pound nails in order to hang it, buy locks to secure it, and make
Pros, Cons and Commitments
We leave our homes with a map and all the sayings: It’s the journey that matters. Not all who wander are lost. Destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. While all