'TWAS A FEW NIGHTS BEFORE XMAS, UMBRIAN STYLE (PART OF THE “CHRONOLOGY IS OVER-RATED” SERIES, THIS WAS WRITTEN LAST YEAR. BUT PRETTY SOON IT WILL BE CHRISTMAS AGAIN, SO MAYBE ITS TIME HAS COME)
VEHICLES In addition to being a cyber-dunce, I have no understanding of what makes a vehicle tick. Why should something as heavy as an airplane ever get off the ground? (Especially with all the extra weight my husband, aka Babbo Natale, has in his holiday suitcase) That's probably why I place so much faith in my magic, flowered, flying shirt and my I AM CALM socks. These are an indispensable part of my travel "uniform," which includes, of course, my magic shirt --the one that keeps the plane aloft. You've read about this before in one of my earliest posts from 2011 RECONNECTING and also in my very first post, RISTRUTTURARE: RENOVATE, REBUILD, RESURRECT Flash to the moment it came time to leave our middle-of-nowhere-Italian home-reachable-only-by-two-routes-each-worse-than-the-other for a lovely-sounding holiday party. Even on a good day, I think of our 2002 Renault as The Little Engine That Could. You've heard about this ca...