Firenze | Firenze
Sep.11.2011
The six months I spent as a sophomore at Stanford’s overseas campus in Florence has everything to do with who I have become and how I want to make my life. It wasn’t until I returned to Italy 27 years later that I could appreciate how essential that time had been.
My two best friends from...
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Sep.09.2011
She laced up her Marathon 10 Adidas running shoes with the caution orange laces and thought that even in Tuscany her trendy hued foot apparel marked her as strictly American. That and the fact that any other Florentine woman wouldn’t be caught dead on the cobblestone streets at this early...
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Oct.10.2008
One of today's blogs is about Michelangelo's David and another describes Florence (but not the Firenze of Italy itself).
I found Florence, Italy, one of the most evocative and wonderful cities I have visited. And David is indeed all it is , er, cracked up to be. (Though - frankly - the most...
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Jan.27.2008
She wakes me every morning at 7 am. And again at 7:20. And at 7:30. She is rather insistent, actually. “You are in Florence! Get out of bed! Come to see me. Admire my marble. Aren’t I beautiful! The light – it is different this morning, and I am shining in the sunrise. Come see me! Come...
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