Today, on Independence Day, I spent a little time with the father of my country. No, it wasn’t in a séance or in the District of Columbia, which honors his name. It was in the Cascine Park in Florence, Italy where George Washington is memorialized. A month earlier, I was in the Republic of San [...]
After spending the first few months of this year with doctors, dentists, accountants, Indian chiefs and candlestick makers, followed by the launch of my third novel, The Ultimate Revenge, the conclusion to "The Simon Trilogy," Joe and l returned to Italy. The month of March whisked by swiftly as we moved off the small street [...]
A week has passed and both Joe's red ink and my writing have flourished. And as we worked through The Ultimate Revenge, we continued to move through Italy and then into Switzerland to Locarno, where the International Film Festival was about to begin. Locarno is situated on the northern edge of Lake Maggiore and is [...]
After months of writing and after having completed the first twenty-six chapters of The Ultimate Revenge, it was time for a change of venue. So we decided to go on a ferie...not to be misconstrued as a ferry. Ferie means holiday in Italian and the locals consider it a short getaway, not quite a vacation. [...]
After an intense week of writing, I treated Joe and myself to a full weekend of play. While Noble's Quest was debuting in NYC at the BookExpo America, we began our weekend shopping for quail at the Mercato Centrale in the Piazza near the church of San Lorenzo, and then stopped at the Perini Gastronomia [...]
This is where my career as a writer began, sitting on the wall with the beautiful historic center of Florence spread before me and the eleventh century Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, complete with a bishop’s palace, at my back. The Florentines often refer to it as the “Gate to Heaven.” From personal experience, [...]
