I realized last night that I’d never written about this experience. At the time it happened – the fall of 2008 – I held back on it because (honestly) I didn’t want my dad calling me up and saying “Amy?” in that exasperated, worried tone he took on sometimes. I was going to put it [...]
Rome 2008
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In 2008, I traveled to Rome by myself. One of my older sons was working over there at the time, teaching English. Not anticipating a winter in Rome (his original plan had been to finish the TOEFL certificate course over there, then head to Vietnam..but Rome cast its spell…), he’d left his warmest jacket over [...]
2008: Back to home
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11/29/2008 How to have a timely departure from FCO: 1) Book a 6am flight on British Airways 2) Have a pre-arranged taxi driver pick you up at 3:55 am. While you are casually standing outside your apartment building, trying to not look like a lunatic or a modestly-dressed streetwalker with luggage to the bemused bakery workers [...]
2008: Roman Night Life…
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12/1/2008 …of another kind: As I mentioned, Wednesday night, I did an accidental Station Church type thing as I attempted to find out what was going on in churches in the center between 6 and 8. This was not something I planned, but something that struck me as interesting when I walked into a [...]
2008: Early Morning at St. Peter’s
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11/30/2008 The first time we went to Rome, in 2006, our apartment was on Borgo Vittorio, which is close to St. Peter’s. It runs parallel to the Borgo Pio, which is a relatively famous street. (A good history of the Borgo area). Michael got up early every morning to go to Mass at St. [...]
2008: Mass With St. Philip
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12/1/2008 Friday morning, after I’d finished at St. Peter’s, I had some time to kill before meeting David at 11 in front of S. Maria di Trestavere. So, over to the Center for a bit. I disembarked in front of the Chiesa Nuova, which is the church of S. Philip Neri. It was about [...]
2008: City From a Hill
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12/2/2008 Two hilltop shots. This is not the greatest, but my camera battery was flashing red, so I was at the point at which I could only turn it on for about 1.7 seconds. Therefore it was basically all about flicking on, pointing and shooting. At whatever was there. So this shot from the [...]
2008: A Young English Poet
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12/2/2008 The Protestant Cemetery in Rome is a different place. Different than the ancient monuments, the Baroque churches, the bustling commercial life. Tucked away behind the Pyramid of Cestius, it is lush and crowded with slabs of silent stone remembering the dead, mostly English and Americans who came to Rome, stayed for a while, [...]
2008: Fountains in Rome
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12/1/2008 Not the big ones, but the smaller ones. Unfortunately, the day I saw the most interesting examples, I was without a camera (not having solved the converter problem yet. Actually I had solved it two days before, but once I got the converter back to the apartment, I found it didn’t work. It [...]
2008: Rome Troubles
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11/28/2008 My trouble in Rome is that I am always finding things by accident but never, ever finding what I want to, when I’m actually looking for it. Things I have found by accident: (And when I say this, I mean, these are things I thought I’d look for later or had sort of intended [...]
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