About me
Some years ago, I retired from a very rewarding and challenging career as a manager and software designer. During my working years, I was able to travel widely. But I never considered travel writing as a second career until I read A Traveler in Italy by H.V. Morton. I knew and loved today’s Italy by then, but never knew that words could resurrect so vividly an Italy I didn’t know: a nation still struggling, in Morton’s time - the mid-twentieth century - to recover from its self-inflicted wounds.
Morton was a well-read man, interested in history, art, music, and culture; but he was also fascinated by everyday life, and could write as entertainingly about the patrons of a Roman barber shop as about an early Christian church.
I think, like Morton, that, wherever you are, a place is defined by the lives its people lead, their faith, traditions, legends, myths, and history; and, of course, by the art that seeks to give meaning to it all.
And that’s what I like to write about.
So, for more than ten years I’ve written a monthly column called “Fast Culture” for Italia! Magazine, as well as full-length features for the magazine and the Italia! Guides Series. I’m also a contributor to German Life Magazine.