by Dianne Hales | Jul 20, 2021 | boats, Books, books on Italy, Italian, Italian language, Italian words and expressions, Italy, Language, learning Italian, Sayings and expressions, summer in Italy, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
For years we sailed San Francisco Bay in a boat called Canto del Mare (Song of the Sea). When we started sailing in Italy, we had to master a new maritime vocabulary, starting with the names for various Italian boats (imbarcazioni italiane): *Rowboat — barca a remi...
by Dianne Hales | Jun 15, 2021 | Books, books on Italy, culture, Fathers Day, history, Italian, Italian folklore, Italian language, Italian words and expressions, Italy, Language, learning Italian, Religion, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Uncategorized, Web/Tech, Weblogs
On Father’s Day I cherish a special memory: the last time I danced with my Dad, at an Italian-American banquet in Northeastern Pennsylvania. My mother had died a few months before, and I decided to bring my broken-hearted Dad along with me on a book tour that would...
by Dianne Hales | Nov 24, 2020 | Books, books on Italy, history, Italian language, Italy, Language, Leonardo da Vinci, Sayings and expressions, Thanksgiving, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Italians don’t observe the all-American holiday of Thanksgiving (la festa del ringraziamento). There are Italian words but no cultural equivalents for the day when the Pilgrim fathers and the American natives came together to celebrate the harvest in the New World....
by DHales | Jan 20, 2017 | Books, Health, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Un invito alla salute An Invitation to Health Through much of my career as a journalist and author, I've written about health (la salute). (Here's the latest edition of my college health textbook, An Invitation to Health.) Along the...
by DHales | Feb 24, 2011 | Italy, Language, Romance, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
L'Italiano Italian won me over at first "Ciao!" Over the last quarter-century, I have devoted countless hours and effort—enough, if applied to more practical pursuits, for the down payment on a villa in Umbria—to the wiliest of...
