Blogs Posts on "Events And Happenings"

Fiera degli allevatori by A View from Carmine Superiore on Oct 20, 2009A less chilly 9° this morning at 8.30am. Probably something to do with the overcast skies. The mist over the lake today alternately concealed and revealed great flocks of tiny birds skimming and swirling their way south.As a child living in leafy Wa...

The first day of the rest of my life by A View from Carmine Superiore on Sep 21, 2009Cloudy with occasional, very occasional bursts of weak sunshine. Close and damp. Seventeen degrees at 8:30am.The house is a disaster zone. The laundry reminds me of that part in Rapunzel where the miller's daughter on her third day is facing a toweri...

Reported conversations No. 15 : I say, you say by A View from Carmine Superiore on Sep 14, 2009Yesterday at lunchtime. B (aged three) is beaming. Mama takes the opportunity and plunges in ...Mama : Darling, tomorrow we'll go to kindergarten with AJ...B : (stops beaming, starts frowning)Mama : We can meet your maestra, see all of your friends,...

Le stelle di San Lorenzo by A View from Carmine Superiore on Aug 13, 2009Hot and sunny once again. On the terrace there's a very large speckled hen eyeing a very large tabby cat. Don't ask.One August night, back in oh my God, 1980, I was sweet sixteen. It was late. I was going home after the most dramatic evening of my yo...

Ford’s Listening, You Got Things To Say? by Hope4Peyton on Jul 17, 2009A friend of mine was telling me about how they equipped their driving-age teenager’s car with a monitoring system…without their knowledge…enabling them to track where she was going and whether or not her car was where she said it wa...

A gift for Friday evening... by A View from Carmine Superiore on Jul 4, 2009Last night, a rainbow brought the children howling out of the house in ecstasies.And we sat in the churchyard under its great arch telling the story of Noah and his Ark. We imagined him sailing on the lake with all the animals aboard, finally groundi...

Jack fell down, And broke his crown... by A View from Carmine Superiore on Jun 20, 2009After the wild and stormy night whipped banshees around the chimney pots, today is blowy but hot, hot, hot.Today, the kids are singing :Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of waterJack fell down and broke his crownAnd Jill came tumbling aft...

TNT and “HawthoRNe” Salute Nurse Heroes by Hope4Peyton on Jun 16, 2009TNT is premiering their new medical drama tonight “HawthoRNe” and I haven’t seen it (with this move and ALL), but being that it’s the network that drops “The Closer” and “Saving Grace” each week, pretty...

The BIG DAY! by Hope4Peyton on Jun 9, 2009It’s ON! The truck is here. The movers are picking up the boxes. We are going to be piling into our vehicles shortly and rolling out of here. Goodbye to our house…our friends…our family…all that has been our lives for the past...