It’s a picture perfect, blue-sky, warm spring day in Umbria. If we were on vacation, we would be visiting a lovely hilltown, checking out a museum, eating lunch at a quaint local pizzeria, and after a brief rest, enjoying an evening stroll and dinner at the best restaurant in town. Instead, today I did two…

We’ve been in Italy for two weeks and it’s been mostly wonderful.   Living in a foreign language does have its challenges, but we’ve accomplished a lot in these first weeks.   We arrived in Giove on Thursday afternoon, jet-lagged and exhausted.  We had been warned that the house might be difficult to find, but both…