+pin

+day trip

florence is sure pretty

+flip

flop... today the havanianas i bought in venice beach in summer 2010 broke, just as i was walking down via fillungo (and thinking that it was 'about time they busted...hmmmm) =>see above, groovy old green and fabulous new white<=

+advice

Charlotte Rampling in The Look

...it doesn't make any difference what people say about oneself
it's what we say about ourselves that make us who we are
and, most of the time people say terrible things about themselves

 ...and the cruelty we enact on ourselves...we wouldn't treat anybody like that.

+be kind to yourself+

+report

since i've been gone...

i have finished three years of university
got a breast reduction
spent a summer in san francisco and met my niece and her girls there...
written a book
started planning grad school
read lots of books
written lots of papers
spent a birthday in NY City
visited my mom and dad 
met my high school girlfriends again

held my sister's hand when she died of pancreatic cancer

learned tons
was grateful

cried a lot
laughed more

have been present and accounted for

+news part 2

a few weeks ago daniele and martina opened SOUP in TOWN, the first vegetarian restaurant  in the centro storico.  i haven't cooked since then.  now i can eat grilled eggplant panini and veggie burgers and couscous and felafel and spinach quiche and panzanella and gazpacho whenever i want

today, however, it's ferragosto (a national holiday) and SOUP's closed...inspired by gessjca's baked green pepper and cherry tomato with extra virgin olive oil topped with feta and capers, i am using my kitchen again

+it's good to be back+

+news