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▼ 2011 (1)
- ▼ October (1)
  - Finding wild and out-of-season blueberries on the ...

► 2010 (2)
- ► March (1)
  - A pick-pocket in Rome
- ► January (1)
  - Visions in Siena

► 2009 (14)
- ► November (1)
  - Juliet's Breast in Verona
- ► September (2)
  - In lovely Sirmione on the Lago di Garda
  - Trento in the Italian Alps
- ► August (1)
  - Forte Dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera
- ► July (1)
  - Impressions of Florence
- ► June (1)
  - Assisi: parking ticket and all
- ► April (1)
  - On the way to Assisi: Foligno
- ► March (2)
  - Positano and the wine of memory
  - Slide Show of our first days in Italy: Rome
- ► February (2)
  - Hot Dog Rolls for breakfast and a day in Capri
  - Piano di Sorrento, Le Maison de Titty, and Ristora...
- ► January (3)

► 2008 (28)
- ► December (1)
  - The Vatican and The Pope
- ► November (3)
- ► October (1)
  - Ciao Italia!
- ► September (3)
- ► August (2)
  - Marching with Las Madres
  - The Argentinian and Brazilian views of Iguazu Fall...
- ► July (2)
  - Seattle by day and by night
  - Canyon Lake AZ: Traveling with the departed
- ► June (3)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (7)

► 2007 (1)
- ► June (1)
  - Setting up house

About Me

Beryl Singleton Bissell: I am a columnist, a freelance writer, and the author of The Scent of God: A Memoir (Counterpoint NY 2006, 2007), a Book Sense Notable for April 2006 and was named a “Best of 2006 Minnesota Authors.”

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My Blog List

balanced on the edge

If you’re caught up in a payday loan nightmare with no relief in sight and are wondering what you might be able to do to end it now, you have a couple of o...
5 hours ago
Music Road

Celtic Connections, in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of Europe’s and the world’s premiere winter festivals, bringing hundreds of artists for sharing of tune an...
18 hours ago
Walk2Write in Florida

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought. Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a ...
1 day ago
Tinker Art

Trying to find my way back to the page. After so many weeks of being away - first, getting the...
3 days ago
Stratoz

two mosaics, same design, two different routes by Wayne Stratz and Margaret Almon Though a week is left before the opening reception (Sunday, February 5th ...
3 days ago
Alison McGhee's Blog

June the Horse - Jim Harrison Sleep is water. I’m an old man surging upriver on the back of my dream horse that I haven’t seen since I was ten. We’re night...
3 days ago
Ann Marie's Istanbul

I’ve been in Taiwan nearly a week. My friend Sandra and I left Istanbul at midnight Friday, arriving in Hong Kong about 9 hours later. We were impressed by...
4 days ago
slow reads

On Santorum vs. Paul: Lincoln vs. Douglas? In last night’s Jacksonville debate, Santorum again went out of his way to espouse natural law principles. Ask...
4 days ago
SIMPLY WAIT

I'm still here. At least, I think I am. But I'm also here. Join me.
1 week ago
The Raabe Review

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
3 weeks ago
asian ramblings

Thousands of tourists fly abroad each year without any form of cover to protect them should something go wrong. You wouldn’t think of driving your car wit...
1 year ago
The Fisherman's Daughter's Guide to the Northwoods

Saturday, October 17th, bring your Sweetest to Somer's Hall at the College of St. Scholastica to hear some Catholic girls read what it's like on the fring...
2 years ago
TOIL, SOLITUDE, PRAYER: Writing as a Practice

On the Road Manuscript, #2 Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk When I was working on my first novel, I made a daily visit to a Website that promised that...
2 years ago