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Sunday, February 15, 2026

A Sunday Walk to Find Il Becco di Dossena

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Il Becco di Dossena was inaugurated in 2023, but it seems like we’ve been hearing about it longer. Recently, on the way home from a ski day...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Notes on Entropy from a Courtyard in Italy

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We think about entropy more than is probably healthy. Not the physics kind, exactly, but the everyday version: the slow drift of things away...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Four Small Reminders in Late January

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Late January can feel washed out, as if the world has been reduced to a narrow grayscale palette. Add to that the current state of the world...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Street Sign Language Lesson LVI

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previous lesson | this lesson In this round of  Street Sign Language Lesson , we deal with a fascist-era sign spotted during a bathroom bre...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

On Naming, Not Persuasion

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A letter to not send. We wrote the following letter with no intention of sending it. It was a way to name something we were carrying and to ...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

The Personal Atlas of Known and Unknown Lands

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    Left: The two globes in the Sala Tassiana of the Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai in Bergamo. Center: Coronelli's two globes. Right: Ter...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Ivy: A Scarf for the Trees

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Scarves for humans, ivy for trees. We’ve written about ivy before. In fact, we thought we were done with it. Ivy, after all, seems like one ...
Friday, January 9, 2026

A Field Guide to Italian Hotel Noises

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Notes from a Noise‑Sensitive Traveler in the Dolomites   Left: The Gasthaus Sonzalaut (fictional) has lots of sounds in store for you! Righ...