Since so many of you offered me helpful feedback on my manuscript/book proposal, I thought I’d take a little break from my travelogue to give you the latest update on my agent search.
Prior to leaving for Italy, I sent four chapters of my much-revised manuscript to JW in New York City. For [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Everybody’s A Snob About Something
Posted in Art, Essay, Life, Musing, Travel, Wanderings, Writing on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today, I went to Binders – an art and craft/framing store – to get a mat board for an etching Andrew and I picked up from a street artist in Florence. We found the etching’s artist in a courtyard near the Uffizi Gallery, among several other vendors selling artworks of Florence and Tuscany.
There [...]
The Punches
Posted in Essay, Life, Musing, Travel, Wanderings, Writing on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew and I consider ourselves at our very best when traveling. We’re into (cautious) adventure; we like to learn stuff; we love to wander and find ourselves in restaurants/b&bs/towns not mentioned in the guidebooks. We like to hang out and play card games and to sleep in – even in Italy, where there [...]
Hi again …
Posted in Life, Travel, Wanderings on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, we returned from our two-week adventure in the Tuscan countryside. I was sad to leave the gelato and the olive groves, but glad to be returning to my own washer/dryer, a bed that feels like home, and, of course, the soft, warm, relieved weight at the foot of that bed: Ivy.
I’d forgotten [...]
Ciao!
Posted in Joyful Things, Travel, Wanderings, tagged Dogs on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Our dog, Ivy, is under the bed. She has been there since Andrew pulled the big, black suitcase out of the attic and began loading it with clothes. We are going to Italy – for two weeks.
Ivy has separation anxiety. And, now that I work from home, she is even more clingy than [...]
