New Story on Substack: IL RUSTICO

"We bought our house in Italy in 2003.  It was a small stone cottage -- two rooms downstairs and two above.  It was a farmworkers cottage.  In the old days -- which was four hundred and some years ago -- the downstairs rooms housed the farm animals, and their body heat warmed the migrant workers as they slept upstairs.  This is either a true story or just some real estate bullshit -- to romanticize the house for gullible Americans, which we were.  Gullible, already overly-romanticized Americans." READ MORE on Substack.