June is a busy month for us. Hubby is busy finishing up his English classes. While I am busy getting ready, as usual, for our summer visits to friends and churches. I wish you could join us! First stop: the hometown First stop, Hubby’s hometown in the beautiful Cilento National Park, near Salerno. Where we […]
Adapting to different cultures is usually difficult and confusing, and quite challenging. Take the standard Italian greeting of a kiss on both cheeks. It’s really not as standard as you might think. Because many people here only touch cheek to cheek while kissing the air. And in many business or formal settings, a kiss on […]
One by one they filed in, sitting around the smoky fire in the dark, dingy room. The entire village, it seemed, wanted a look at us — the Americans. While I in turn, through teary, smoke-filled eyes, examined them. Our new town folk, for this was our new home. A village from another era Life in that isolated […]
Visiting 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 curiosity in spades! Life in […]
There 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 of the old and wrinkled […]
We celebrated 30 years of being in Italy last month (May 2018). Although our years here have not always been easy, we would choose this path again in a heartbeat. It’s been a good life, and we have seen God’s faithfulness throughout. It’s a life of joy mixed with sorrow Being unable to attend the […]