In Love with France, At Home In Italy

This feels like a good time for me to apologize to my Blog (yet again) for neglecting her.  😔💐  To encourage myself to follow through with my plan to update her, yesterday I posted a message to that effect on Facebook. Here comes more about my good intentions.    I see that my most recent post is from last summer, so it’s hard to know where to begin. I also understand that readers get impatient if they don’t hear from you on a regular basis, so I am working at turning over a new leaf.    Since my book Letters To Men Of Letters   came out,    https://bookshop.org/p/books/letters-to-men-of-letters-diane-joy-charney/16485616?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email  I was persuaded that it would be important to try to learn how to use social media, and being a complete technodunce, I faced a stiff learning curve. Further, just as soon as I thought I had figured out how to do something on Facebook, there was a change in how the site worked. One moment I had over 200 friends with whom I e