I collect teapots but I’ve never been a big tea drinker. I just realized that when my as-of-yet-unborn daughter reaches my current age, I will be 76. This makes me want to grow very old. I can wiggle my nose. One of my earliest memories is catching my Dad putting sugar on his breakfast cereal. …
Have you ever thought about making a living as a writer? That thought has been a constant companion of mine for the past 25 years. Yes, 25 years, and it was just about exactly one year ago that I actually started doing something about it. Now with a little one on the way, I wondered …
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Michelle Fabio, an American writer and attorney leaves the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania for her family’s ancestral village in Calabria, Italy, falls in love, gets two dogs, writes to her heart’s content and begins bleeding espresso. No, really.
I ran away to the mall a couple days ago. Everything was coming at me from every direction and I was in need of some retail therapy. Problem is, I have neither time nor money at the moment. Then I somehow silenced the nagging “you don’t have time for this…” long enough to find myself …
