We didn’t go to the Italian Grand Prix Formula 1 Race at Monza on Sunday, September 1st, but we did the next best thing. We took a train from Varenna to Monza (not far from Milan) on Saturday, August 31st and went to the city’s race festival. Another extremely hot day–I spent a lot of […]
Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]
Thursday and Friday, August 29-30, 2024 How to explain getting from here to there without boring backstory? Our plan was to leave Lugano, Switzerland this morning and take a bus to Menaggio, a town on Lake Como in Italy. We ate breakfast at our hotel and left about 8 am, taking the aforementioned funicular back […]
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 This morning we checked our bags and backpacks for a boat ride to Fluelen, from which we’d take a panoramic train ride to Lugano in Italian-speaking Switzerland. The closer we came to Italy, (and I’m allowed to say this because I’m half Italian) the more out of control things seemed in […]
Part II So there’s this lion carved into rock in Lucerne. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who died in 1792 during the French Revolution when they tried to help King Louis XVI. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn, it’s one of the most famous monuments in Switzerland, visited annually by […]
Part I The problem with writing these entries, after a long time not writing, is that there’s too much to explain. Because of my overmagnifying, OCD/ADHD brain, I think for you to get a really good picture of what I’m talking about, I would need to explain several truths that have been a lifetime in […]
I will try to be brief but brevity is not my forte. My husband and I arrived late morning in Washington, DC, before a late afternoon flight to Zurich, Switzerland on August 23. He wanted to take a trip to a nearby flight museum to do something with the time between flights. I was nervous–worried […]
For the last three years, I’ve been having trouble writing. It seems I just can’t get that inspired about anything. It’s not that I don’t have ideas. I am having difficulty following through with other things besides writing, too, like working around my house, etc. Today I thought I would just write about a trip […]
My first collection of short stories and essays will be coming out September/October this fall of 2022. Here is the link if you’d like to see information regarding this book. It’s called Throwing Tarts at the King and Other stories, and it’s by me, Anne Bianco!
When I’d visited my mother two weeks before, I found her sitting in a chair in the dining room of her memory care home out in the Amish country of Hiram Ohio. She really looked quite beautiful, but she had always been beautiful to me. Her hair had been done, her blue eyes were large […]
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