Little did I know but as “crutches-challenges” go, the worst was yet to come. My final night in “la Grande Mela”, as the Italians would say, was with jr-yr-abroad Rome friends and…
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Sometimes, last-minute events just creep into my tour itineraries. Early last February, I was wrapping up this year’s US tour itinerary, about to fly out to the US from Itay, when an…
Thanks to Allison, my Manhattan cooking host, I met Beth and Rob M. and cooked for their friends and some co-workers of Beth on March 7th in their Mahwah, New Jersey home.…
A porter pushing a wheelchair loaded me on to the train in Pennsylvia and another porter-pushed wheelchair unloaded me at the taxi stand in front of Penn Station in New York a…
This year I arrived in Pittsburgh from Milwaukee (with a 2-day stop for family visits) on February 3 and the snowfall dumps of the weeks before were all around… read more…
After Seattle, on to Denver for two wonderful events with classmates, old friends, past Umbria tour guests, future Umbria tour guests and new friends! Che bello! Jim and Cindy Tanner warmly welcomed…
My days in Seattle seem to me to have been filled with sunshine, though the weather has been the usual Seattle gray and rainy. Here, too, I’ve connected with many old frieds:…
Great to see Susan and David Murphy again (many years after I was their tour guide in Umbria) in Sacramento on February 19th for the cooking class in their home. Many University…
Cooking with friends just for pleasure happens quite often on these US tours, too. Last week, I made a pasta dish for three University of Santa Clara women friends here in San…
It’s always good to return to the San Francisco Bay Area where so many friends now live: friends from my alma mater, the University of Santa Clara, friends from UCB (where I…