Lugano – Small, but valuable.

Lovely Lugano (Vacation Part 2)

After we met our rental steed and drove through a few alps, we stopped for a day and a half in my favorite town of all–Lugano, Switzerland. That’s my favorite tree-lined lakeside walk. With my favorite red benches. Those colors are amazing. Nothing but sunshine, lake, and Lugano-ness there. And once you’ve soaked that all in…

Anywhere

One of my friends and I sometimes play the “where would you be” game. So if I could be in any place/time right now, I would pick this spot: I would live above that shop, and I would spend the morning walking around town, maybe picking up some ingredients for dinner. There would be hot…

Snap

Sometimes I miss Lugano so much. How could you not? When I was a little kid, there was a TV show called Out of This World where a girl could snap her fingers and stop time. She went around fixing things before people knew what was going on and that sort of thing. She could…

un’isola

Today is a nostalgic day. What is it that I’m pining for? Being surrounded by a foreign language. I’ll explain. I’ve been going through things and reorganizing lately. It’s a good spring-ish thing to do, and I ran into some old journals in the process. The journals start around 1990 and more or less stop…