….and if you don’t have a good appetite, you will as soon as you walk into Peppa’s kitchen and take a whiff of that tomato sauce simmering on her stove. On a winter noontime, she was cooking spaghetti in her big battered aluminum pot. With a fork, Peppa pulled one boiling spaghetto out to see…
Our Giulia wrote these words shortly after learning about the death of sculptor, Beverly Pepper on February 5, 2020: “I always referred to Beverly as an ‘incredible’ woman. A word often used lightly but not when referred to a woman and artist like her. It was hard to believe many of her stories and achievements.…
I couldn’t remember the exact location in Assisi’s cemetery of the burial vault of Clara Weiss, an Austrian Jewish refugee who had died (of natural causes) in 1944 while hidden in Assisi. I was looking for it on February 2nd before the ceremony honoring Don Aldo Brunacci, instrumental in the successful hiding of over three…