A 1960s Trip to Switzerland Changed My Mother’s Life—So We Went Back, Together
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The Best Meatballs Do Not Exist, and Other Lessons I Learned in Italy
The “best” meatballs do not exist, at least according to Elvira, who is not technically a nonna. Though she did ...
Chasing Lava as the Earth Shifts
Land is one of those things that can disappear even as you see it. It falls away beneath you, becoming ...
Losing Everywhere I’ve Been in the Palisades Fire
When my home burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires last January, I felt bereft of not just my belongings ...
How a Father-Daughter Trek up Mount Kilimanjaro Shaped a Life
It was after midnight on the icy slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. A frigid wind sliced across my cheeks as I ...
Italy Broke My Heart—Ten Years Later, I Went Back
Ten years ago, I left Italy with a suitcase full of olive oil and tears streaming down my face, and ...
Rekindling a Best-Friendship on a Weekend Trip to Tasmania
That first gloomy evening, roving the city with no reservations, we had dinner at a nondescript dine-in bakery. We couldn’t ...
Harvesting Olives in Sicily to Cope With My Parents’ Sudden Split
It was a late fall afternoon when I arrived in Contrada Noce. I stood on the tiled veranda of the ...
In Puerto Rico, Unearthing Family Ties I Thought Were Lost
To this day, few things help me slip into sleep. When I was younger, though, my father came to the ...
What ‘Notting Hill’ Got Right About My Neighborhood, and What It Left Out of Frame
Near the beginning of the 1999 movie Notting Hill, the character of bookseller William Thacker (Hugh Grant) spins round a ...
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