The towns municipal police officer is playing street cop and directing two-way traffic on a street built for one. He wears the aviator shades that Tom Cruise sported in his film Top Gun, which two decades later are still all the rage. Continue reading
The sirens wailed in the wet mountain air and stopped. They are close, too close. I put down my book and surveyed the damp valley below. But I can’t see them. The sirens start again. I see the ambulance turn … Continue reading
It’s roughly 10:30am and I’ve been up and alert for three-point five hours. I’ve ran my pre-dawn run and it’s time to head into town to collect fresh food for the day. The red house on the corner is always sparkling clean, the flowers blooming daily and heavenly, the sweet smell of homemade pasta sauce drifting in the mountain air, tiny cars edge their way through town and I find myself walking… Continue reading
Shopping (spesa) here is fun and at times 
difficult. I point and use hand gestures to help in receiving my fresh meat and bread. I like to hang around the dusty… Continue reading
My Sardinian Life 