On May 1^st,  International Workers Day and the first perfect day of the spring.  Summer will soon be here, there's that feel to the air. I take the number 13 vaporetto from Fondamenta Nove to the island of Sant’Erasmo. There are three stops on the island: Capannone, then Chiesa,...

When I arrived at the fondamenta in front of the hotel at about five o’clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 10, there were just a few police hovering outside.  No one said anything to me as I entered, and neither did anyone at the front desk, although my name had been put on some kind of...

December 1, 2008

Woke this morning to sirens.  It had been raining for days, and all night last night too. The sirens were announcing there would be aqua alta,  high water, today.  Sometimes Venice seems so quiet, with little ‘to do’.  But when I think of leaving, I feel a...