Tag: personal essays

Ten years ago, I left Italy with a suitcase full of olive oil and tears streaming down my face, and ...

That first gloomy evening, roving the city with no reservations, we had dinner at a nondescript dine-in bakery. We couldn’t ...

It was a late fall afternoon when I arrived in Contrada Noce. I stood on the tiled veranda of the ...

To this day, few things help me slip into sleep. When I was younger, though, my father came to the ...

Near the beginning of the 1999 movie Notting Hill, the character of bookseller William Thacker (Hugh Grant) spins round a ...

Sunset descends like a dream in Kenya’s Lamu archipelago: Each evening, the channel separating the islands of Manda and Lamu ...

I picked Mimi up from school on a Friday afternoon in June. In the pitch-dark dortoir, or nap room, I ...

Last summer, my dad was diagnosed with cancer. I’d just moved to Milan from Rome, where my family is based, ...

When my dad died in May 2017, just before the beginning of beach season, I was leveled. Grief always finds ...

I chart my travels in hot dog stands. Whether I'm grabbing a Seattle-style hot dog (cream cheese and grilled onions) ...