My defeat?
It didn’t even take a whole day in the New Year for me to learn something new.
It didn’t even take a whole day in the New Year for me to learn something new.
Over the 2019 holidays we spent a month in Italy, working remotely for a while, seeing family and friends, then crowning everything with a few days in Sicily, where I hadn’t been in over thirty years. Just a few days before the new year, as I was leaving one of my favorite restaurants in Imola, they gave me a 2020 daily calendar, with the day’s saint listed on each page. My thought then was that between work and all the trips we had planned for the year we’d end up falling behind and having to tear off entire weeks at a time.
My last accomplishment of 2018 was to copy all the photos I’ve uploaded to Flickr since 2006 to a new site, which I started planning almost three years ago.
A year ago I was in Naples for my green card interview at the US consulate. In retrospect, the inordinate amounts of pizza we ate during our stay were the perfect way to celebrate the end of a nine-months-long process full of forms, lawyers, and lots of waiting. Three weeks later I moved to Boston.
(I know, great time to move to the United States.)
This post appeared on March 31 on The Pastry Box Project.
After my first post on The Pastry Box Project last year, I was invited to be a baker for 2015, which is also the project’s final year. I started my tenure on January 31, with a piece titled “Pixel-Induced Alienation.”
A month ago I submitted a piece to The Pastry Box Project, which is now online. It’s titled “My Elusive Science,” and it’s about unicorns and fuzzy puppies (maybe).