Two for two …. #StillLifeWithSaints
Throwback to an April 1st post from
2013 @ L’Americana on a cold rainy not so Spring morning in Alta Irpinia #StillLifeWithSaints #BookSky Today not much has changed weather-wise or table wise as I’ll be with Filomena & her family Easter Sunday for her formidable & infamous ravioli, buon appetito.
Slow-blogging from remote hilltop Italy since 2006 • I post Hits & Misses from the L’Americana archive as the mood strikes • L’Americana, Photos and narrative wanderings from a hilltop town in Campania, Italy • Now all on Substack #BookSky #StillLifeWithSaints
‘I seemed an ersatz hipster, an errant Wonder Woman allowed into the inner sanctum of a well-tended Italian home.’ #GhostsofItaly #BookSky #StillLifeWithSaints
Christmas Eve Still Life With Saints ✨ #StillLifeWithSaints #BookSky
Winter Solstice Sunrise for This Morning’s Misty Mountain Balcony View • News!! NB: #GhostsofItaly + #StillLifeWithSaints are #Kirkus Editor’s Picks for their Spring 2026 Indie Books Worth Discovering #BookSky
Dec 2025 is the 5th Anniversary of the release of #StillLifeWithSaints!
She’s just been selected by Kirkus
Editor’s as an #IndieBook Worth Discovering #Booksky
lamericana.blogspot.com/2020/10/
A few months back I announced l was offering a creative writing retreat in Italy.This was something I envisioned back in 2020 when I released #StillLifeWithSaints. I love #CallingintheMuse to write. Here’s your chance to do the same. We hope you'll join us! #Booksky @muse_retreats_italy Instagram
A brilliant, (red &) Black Admiral fluttered near me today on via Fontana. Late October is butterfly season in Alta Irpinia. #Booksky #StillLifeWithSaints
‘Pierluigi Zampaglione calls his organic Fiano wine Don Chisciotte for a reason. People thought he was crazy.’ #StillLifeWithSaints #Booksky
La civetta (the nightbird) is back tooting over my balcony for This Evening’s MidSummer Balcony View #Booksky #StillLifeWithSaints
Last hours of Women’s History Month ✨ #StillLifeWithSaints #Kirkus #Reviews #Booksky
‘Meglio lupo che sole,’ Teresa tells me, looking up at the clearing sky. Today is ‘il giorno del lupo’, or day of the Wolf. That turning point of the winter season. In other words Irpinian groundhog day. #amwriting #Booksky #GhostsofItaly #StillLifeWithSaints
Throwback Thurs: ‘With great appreciation & thanks for the lovely mention of The GHOSTS OF ITALY in Bell’Italia’s profile of Calitri by giornalista & saggista Manuela Piancastelli. The Venezia issue! April 2022 Edition’ #BookSky #GhostsofItaly #StillLifeWithSaints
Allora, so…the 3rd in a series of Americans has just contacted me on how to either get Citizenship or buy a house here in mid-Southern Italy. It’s going to be a busy 2025!! #StillLifeWithSaints • The wine is #DonChisciotte a local, prestigioso #Fiano 🇮🇹🍷🥂
Un pò frizzante • A volcanic #Aglianico from Basilicata; deep hearty grape, late fruit & light tannins. Annata 2020, just like Still Life With Saints #BookSky #WineSky #StillLifeWithSaints
Auguri di Santa Lucia • The Feast of Santa Lucia is celebrated on December 13th in memory of this third-century martyr. It coincides with the celebration of the winter solstice & European folklore & religion, focusing is on the annual struggle between darkness and light. #StillLifeWithSaints