“I like people that weren’t captured, OK?” An old political friend once remarked, not altogether in jest, that the most “enjoyable” part...

Third in a series from Europe… [Siena] – I have found my perfect restaurant. I have been fortunate to visit Siena – I think perhaps...

[Near Radda in Chianti] – Probably the best way to really enjoy and appreciate the Tuscan countryside is on foot, trekking from one...

Americans, by most accounts, consider themselves the hardest working people in the world. Well, maybe. But, at what cost and at what...

More importantly, every week is fashion week in Siena; a city that is to style what Boston is to baseball meltdowns. The old city,...

The Bard, we think, wrote his 29th sonnet around about 1592 at a time when he was deeply troubled by something. Perhaps it was the...