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Venezia / Los Angeles. I read books.
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For reasons beyond my understanding, #Weebly deleted the site about #books and #Venice I had been working on for over a year. Their “support” team is unresponsive. I’m a little crushed. #ReadingVenice
My friend’s #lemon tree is covered in fruit so I’m making #marmalade (or rather a kind of jam which uses the entire lemon – it’s an Italian recipe)
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I love looking out an #airplane window – today I went from Venice to Tivat via Belgrade
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Here is some peaceful golden foliage to make up for my last 2 posts’ stilted highbrow vibe (which is actually very me, I admit…)
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I discovered the wild works of Argentine ceramic artist #LucioFontana (1899-1968). Here are one early work & one late piece.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My friend Marianna, whose gifts always expand my horizons, sent me this fascinating #autobiography of translator Lilianna Lungina (1920-1998), whose life pretty much coincided with that of the #USSR. Much of it is chilling.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
On Nov. 21, #Venice remembers the end of the 1631 #plague with visits to the Santa Maria della Salute basilica – I’m not a Christian but I’m willing to hedge my bets, so I lit a candle too…
#Venezia
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I can’t resist a book about/by #ballet dancers – and Karen Valby’s The Swans of Harlem is positively enlightening to boot
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This golden #gingko is for @sparrowpost.bsky.social, who always comes across magical trees on her walks
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Terrific panel at the #VeniceNoir festival about how realistic murders are (and should be) in #crimefiction – featuring a legit British pathologist surrounded by lively, fiery novelists @annamazz.bsky.social @ianrankin1.bsky.social @tombenjamin.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Like writers’ work, the work of professional translators has been pillaged by #AI companies to train #LLMmodels so it’s disheartening when a wonderful #bookfestival features an AI translator (with an awful output at that)… #VeniceNoir @annamazz.bsky.social @davidhewson.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
An appropriately eerie, foggy #Venice hosts the #VeniceNoir festival as of today – the Trial of Casanova panel was brilliant, both fun and thought provoking
#Venezia #ReadingVenice
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today it’s the Festa di San Martin – children in #Venice enjoy Saint Martin-shaped biscotti covered with candy and frosting, and go around their neighborhood banging on pots and pans to demand candy from storekeepers.
#Venezia
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I found some #quince at the farmers’ market so I made dulce de membrillo, a treat that reminds me of my grandparents’ native Uruguay…
#dulcedemembrillo
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Churches in #Italy often feature tiny #thriftstores. At a church in #Venice I just got a used checkered button-down shirt (100% cotton, Made in England) as a replacement for a beloved plaid shirt that a friend gave me 30 years ago, when I was a teenager, and that’s now literally threadbare
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I’ve been taking #vogaveneta (Venetian-style #rowing, standing up) lessons for over a year now and it’s not getting any easier…
#Venice #Venezia
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
So comforting, delicious and nutritious – my #stracciatella #soup with #rainbowchard (instead of the classic spinach, which I couldn’t find at the farmers’ market), dried tomatoes and a couple of beaten eggs
#vegetarian
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
My #JosephConrad spree continues with Typhoon
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
They built a temporary floating bridge between #Venice and the San Michele cemetery for the Day of the Dead weekend
#Venezia
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A wonderful exhibition about writer #MarioRigoniStern highlights his WW2 experiences, his friendship with Primo Levi and his lifelong passion for nature, especially his native mountains around Asiago.
At the Palazzo Bomben in #Treviso
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I love it that the EMERGENCY EXIT sign is reflected in this #selportrait of Edvard #Munch, now on display at the Candiani Center in #Venice-Mestre
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Fresh #gnocchi topped with chopped #walnuts and #parsley – simply scrumptious
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today’s sunset
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Apparently #LaFenice gives my beloved Alban Berg’s #Wozzeck in Italian [gasp]
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Another Saturday, another Venetian #sailing (vela al terzo) lesson
#Venice
#velaalterzo
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM