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Continue reading →: Hidden in Silence: Movie ReviewI don’t know about you, but finances can get pretty tight around here. Our outings usually mean a Saturday night stroll for wonderful hot pizzas from our favorite pizzeria, The Red Wolf. Eating out (unless you go elegant or eat a lot) is really quite inexpensive here. We can get…
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Continue reading →: Eyes That Don’t See: A Spiritual Vision CheckupIt crept up quietly, little by little. That’s how some things happen. And we don’t realize it until it’s too late (or almost). Like with my eyesight. I was convinced that I could see. But the truth is, I was going blind. Our eyes are pretty amazing. Each eye is…
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Continue reading →: The Golden Rule of SimplifyingLife can get pretty complicated, right? So why add a messy house to it? That’s what I tell friends when they comment on how clean and tidy they usually find my house. “But how do you do it?” they ask. ” By following my Golden Rule of Simplifying,” I tell…
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Continue reading →: Life and Missions in Small Town ItalyVisiting Italian villages is a unique and sometimes confusing experience. Expect people to stare at you as you walk down the street. But don’t let it give you an inferiority complex. It’s not that you’re strange or funny-looking. They just don’t see many outsiders, and people everywhere seem to have…
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Continue reading →: Our Italian Summer Village: Beyond ForgottenThere is only one road leading to the isolated town, our summer village. A place little touched by time, technology, or by the frenetic pace of getting ahead. Thirteen years had passed since our last visit. And though fewer and older, the inhabitants somehow seem to have remained much the same. Many…
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Continue reading →: Our Abruzzo, Beautiful but ForgottenOur Abruzzo village, where we live most of the year, is set among gently rolling hills, covered with vineyards and olive groves. With snow-capped mountains on one side and the Adriatic Sea on the other, it’s truly beautiful. And we feel blessed to live here. Abruzzo is mainly an agricultural…
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Continue reading →: The Most Dangerous Ways to School [Video]Most of us went to school as children, and knew the path so well that we could almost follow it with our eyes closed! But few of us could have imagined walking the extremely long, arduous, and dangerous paths that the children in these documentaries take. This great documentary series…
Signora Sheila
Notes on Life, Faith & Italy
Welcome!
I’m Signora Sheila: American born-Italian at heart, I’m a wife, mom, nonna and follower of Jesus. I am passionate about my faith, my family and my simple dolce vita here in Italy, where I’ve been living for 37+ years.
Signora Sheila 