Venezia, tell me who I am, but not who I was.

A New York woman shares the sacred, the profane, and the mundane aspects of her year in Venice. And beyond.

08 October 2009

“The Venice effect”

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“The rhythm in Venice is like breathing,” he said. “High water, high pressure: tense. Low water, low pressure: relaxed. Venetians are not at...
01 October 2009

Report from Venice

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Remarkable how much can be jammed into eight short days! Still… I did not manage to do the little personal things that meant the most to me ...
17 September 2009

Another homecoming

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I am almost jumping out of my skin! Tonight I return to Venice. It’s just for a brief holiday. I will be a tourist again, and it seems like ...
20 May 2009

Gains & losses

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It’s the two-column list, that trusty old tool we use for seeing how everything turned out when it’s all over. A personal P&L. Here’s h...
15 May 2009

Was I really there?

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Strange. Something I was not expecting… a sense of disbelief that any of this happened at all, that I ever had a home and a life in Venice, ...
11 May 2009

Per Veneziani soltanto

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What’s wrong with this picture? Yup. It’s another illusion. This time the windowsill is that of my New York brownstone, and the ceramic impo...
07 May 2009

Two Avalons

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Yesterday morning I took my last look at La Serenissima from the window of my New York-bound jet. As we climbed higher, I could easily make ...
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Chiara Vincera
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