So there's a girl here. I have mentioned her ( Read more... )

     So I ache... everywhere ( Read more... )

               I think about all the hundreds of years in the history of the peninsula we call Italy. Years and years and years ago, I could have been one of the devout Catholics, an impoverished painter, who wanted nothing more than to form the muscles of the Christ based upon Michelangelo models. Or a Roman, worshipping the same gods and ( Read more... )

     Italy, it is the most sacred word at home. My mother was so proud.. not necessarily of me, but of the fact that I was going to Italy of all places... I am so happy, she'd tell me. But you can't wear your pentacle. They are Catholic there. Remember, you are going to Italy. Italy. Italy. Italy. Yes, I was going to Italy. A month after being in ( Read more... )

Italy, glorious Italy, why oh why do you not believe in towels or tissues ( Read more... )

     Once upon a time there was a guy who went to Italy and spoke no Italian, or he spoke such unhelpful things that he may as well not have known Italian. He said things like "prociutt-" no "o" or "mozzarell-" again, no "o" or "Buon Giorno" even in the late evening because he wasn't sure what time consistuted "sera" or "notte" and did anyone say " ( Read more... )

A less personal and more reader oriented description of my experiences in Italy.... well... this should be easy, shouldn't it? After all, this is why I am on livejournal, for the wonderful world of the internet to read the most popular thoughts that run through my head, and not so popular, but hell, they are mine, and thus golden. By the by, this ( Read more... )

There are a few things that I just need to say about Italy...

Every woman over the age of 50 has a HUGE fur coat... it's like
Happy Fiftieth Birthday! Here's the mandatory fur coat... like the Giver... a bicycle on your tenth birthday...

Every other person has a dog....
And then they don't pick up after them...

No one believes in tissues...
::sneeze:: ( Read more... )

If you had me alone, locked up in your house/my house/a hotel/wherever suits your fancy for twenty-four hours and I had to do whatever you wanted me to, what would you do with me?

All answers are private... :.wink:: and will be screened, but I will give you much love in return

Dear World ( Read more... )