TRAVEL AS TENDERNESS TOWARD EXPERIENCE
Young people, and especially our children, can revive our capacity for wonder at the world and a sense of intimate connection to it. I felt closer to the landsc...
Category: Travel
NORWEGIAN WOODS
A cluster of red and white wooden buildings nest in a meadow at the edge of a lake that is really the long finger of a Norwegian fjord. The sheds and houses are...
FRENCH CONNECTION
I can’t say that I was ever fond of France, a fact that had much to do with my inability to properly pronounce the language– and with the scorn of Paris...
A TASTE OF LA SCALA
Our sense of delight is in a great measure comparative, and arises at once from the sensations we feel and those which we remember. Samuel Johnson, Rambler #80...
IN OTHER WORLDS
(from Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen, forthcoming with She Writes Press 2013) Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on...
EATING VENETIAN: CICHETI
We are sitting on the ledge of a low brick wall that separates the sidewalk from a small canal in the Dosoduro, a quiet and unusually verdant section of ...