I am expanding on a half blog post I began in Cambodia in December 2016 and am now finishing a year and a half later. I found this on my iPad while sitting in a bar in Portland. In re-reading my words from eighteen months ago written half a world away, I am struck by …
Random musings on returning to Italy
After we decided to spend Claire’s birthday and our honeymoon in Italy – I began to get steadily more excited about the prospect of returning to Italy, Venice in particular. As a first semester sophomore in 1989, I left the US, fraternity and the comfort of “my place” in my world for the unknown. No …