no, exactly in 1999. In Italy for my birthday. No better present than that! Well, not true, but up there.

I fictionalized the days in Venice in a full chapter of Like A Blue Thread titled La Serenissima. Like, how could I not? All of Italy was enchanting, but Venice, under snow, with acqua alta, after the bustle of Rome?

SO ABSOLUTELY.

Reading through the Scrivener binder for an excerpt, I realize it will take me a bit to choose. Sigh. Will probably be the beginning or the end of the chapter. Mmm, perhaps not. Right now, I must have breakfast … I am famished.