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Three Magical Ways to Embrace Spring
I don’t know about you, but I’m finding it very tricky to stay inside or even concentrate on work these days. I should be answering emails, but instead I’m gazing outside at the purple irises that are blossoming daily in every corner of the yard like quiet fireworks. As soon as I close a video call, I burst out the front door to stand in the sunlight and feel the breeze on my skin. I have (for…
11 Easy Ways to Bring Playfulness Back In
“It’s all just gray, bleak and depressing.” This was one my closest friends, Anna, talking about the weather in my former home of Faenza, Italy–but she could’ve been talking about the state of the world. It’s a heavy moment. My heart often hurts, even when I’m doing something I love with someone I love. Underneath it all is the knowledge that many, many other people are suffering. It’s hard to…
How to Be Truly Abundant
There’s proof in the abundance of nature, especially at harvest time: You really can have it all.A supportive community full of spiritual people who love us for you for who you really are.A healthy, loving romantic partnership.A job that springs you out of bed, because you’re passionate about what you’re doing.A life which is in balance between work, travel, exercise, friends and family time and…
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Your Intuition Is Calling: Are You Ready to Listen?
How can others take you seriously if you don’t first take yourself seriously? This means learning to trust your body, your gut and those feelings that you just can’t logically explain. I get it–it’s hard to listen to that quiet voice inside when the world is so very loud. In the past, I made decisions only to question them afterwards when I saw people doing the opposite. I also stayed in a toxic…
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Umbria or Bust: Exploring New Bits of Italy by Bike
Umbria or Bust: Exploring New Bits of Italy by Bike
As usual, Italians find poetic ways to express even the mundane. One example are long weekends that include a weekday holiday and which are called a “ponte,” or bridge. The ponte born from a weekend plus the Festa della Repubblica on June 2nd generated an idea: a 600 kilometer/ 375-ish mile bike tour from the province of Emilia-Romagna into neighboring Umbria. Said idea had always been for my…
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Me, Myself and My Tent
I'm ready to go exploring... Ladies, how about you? Where do you wanna go? Let's do it and do it safely, joyfully and boldly :)
9 Ways Women Can Safely Camp Alone My friend Cristina, or Cri, is an incredible woman. You would never guess that she is 50-something years old looking at her bright eyes, smooth, tanned skin and above all, feeling the energy and strength she exudes. She’s raised four incredible children, one of whom, Irene, is mostly paralyzed on the left side of her body. Irene became like a little sister to…
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12 Things I Enjoyed In 2020
12 Things I Enjoyed In 2020
Ho-ho-holidays are here! It’s hard to avoid the fact that they’re quite different than usual. Perhaps we’re still eating ham, turkey or to-furkey–or over here in my corner of Italy, cappelletti in brodo–but with two people instead of twenty. We’re making toasts over Zoom and unwrapping presents with Skype. We’re confined to our houses and neighborhoods (or if we’re not, we really should…
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Thirsty Dreams of Hungry Country
Thirsty Dreams of Hungry Country
It’s cold today. My remarkably as yet un-cracked Huawei phone informs me it’s 3 Celsius, or about 37 Fahrenheit. In arid environments, especially with a sun smiling overhead, this could be considered balmy. But it’s humid in Faenza, making the perception of cold more intense. Three degrees Celsius is cold enough to make your hat slide itself further down your ears and your jacket button of its…
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A Florence in the Forest (And It's Been A Long Time Coming)
It's me, a tent, a storm and as always, an adventure! Feeling grateful today that I was able to have this experience in 2020. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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Where did the last seven months go?
Oh yes… a global pandemic. On a personal level, another battle with bureaucracy, three more moves and (miraculously) some summer travels. Plus I’ve finally finished polishing the narrative nonfiction novel I wrote about my solo bike journey across the US. Although “finished” is a funny word, because completing a novel is like saying…
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Corona Matata
“We’re in this quarantine for a reason,” my friend Enrico said to me during one of innumerable late evening venting sessions via What’s App. I’ve been meditating on his words during my daily terrace sessions because I am of the mindset that people, obstacles and circumstances arrive to help us evolve. I believe extreme learning of this vein calls for less fear and worry and more hope, love and…
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Coro-normality
One of the busiest highways in northern Italy is emptier than a toilet paper shelf in America. What is the (quarantined) world coming to!?
The Milan-Venice autostrada during the quarantine (thanks to Enrico for the pic!)
I wake with a start because my roommate’s Cristina’s daughter (Irene) is singing at the top of her lungs like she does when she’s overjoyed, which thankfully is most of the time. I’m also thrilled because it must be Saturday as on weekdays I get up as early as an afternoon shadow and Irene’s gone to school. But…
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A Walk With Mr. O (A Coronavirus Story)
The thing about Mr. O is that he doesn’t say much. That’s dandy because after three weeks at home, I’ve grown accustomed to long periods of silence. I live with two kind and agreeable roommates (my friend Cristina and her 11-year-old daughter Irene), but without a word we often migrate to separate corners of our top floor apartment.
Yesterday I had a stroll to take with Mr. O and since there…
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Cycling Through: A Coronavirus Story
Il vulcano
Italy in general is not a place you go to escape people. In particular in Romagna on a Sunday on a bicycle. Normally Sundays are when people who don’t ride get on their bikes anyway because here the bike culture is stronger than the espresso. Marco Pantani, unforgettable in the world of professional cycling, was hatched nearby in Cesena and Romagna hosts the world’s second largest…
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Coronavirus in Wonderland
The sun has retired but the boys that live downstairs are still running around outside and laughing except today they’re all wearing masks. I can hear my roommate chatting on the phone in the kitchen. She’s a nurse and she’s been called into work tomorrow to give blood transfers to people who need them. It’s not an ideal task in a quarantined country where we’re asked not to exit our houses and…
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Where Dreams Lay Their Heads
Where Dreams Lay Their Heads
In mid-August, with the help of my friend Jess and her van, I moved into my new apartment. Although, calling it new would be a stretch — both of reality and imagination. Stepping inside is like stepping back in time: the floors, hailing the 50s, are made of chipped stones called graniglia, a poor man’s version of the artisan terrazzo alla Veneziana. The apartment was empty for a year or two. It…
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Getting Things Not Done in Italy: Retail Shopping
Getting Things Not Done in Italy: Retail Shopping
A very young Sylva and brother Kyle, just pointing out a few things…
Rewind to the end of a summer of bike rides and camping trips. It was New Mexico and the school year was creeping up like a sneaky ghoul. Kids like my brother and I would’ve flooded into stores for new school clothes, parents in tow. No matter that we could still wear the previous year’s clothes — it was tradition.
We…
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