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...

  M TO DJC: I just SAW the book. Is that you on the cover?  I bet it is because you are so clever. What a shot of the mailbox, you mailing it and the doorway. Beautiful!!   MY REPLY: Yup! That’s me in my magic flying shirt—the one that keeps the planes aloft. Of course I can’t travel without it, so it’s gotta last.    Jim took the photo which required many attempts and different outfits, not to mention the unauthorized use of someone else’s mailbox and also their mail, because we forgot to bring a letter with us.    Fortunately, the door on the mailbox was a little busted, so we could “borrow” their letter and then discreetly put it back. Somehow we managed not to get arrested. 😉 —xxx, d 📬   M REPLIED : That’s hysterical! What did you do, drive around scouting the perfect spots? Stalking people in the countryside? I wonder what the owners would think if they received a copy of your book? Too funny.   DJC BACK TO M: So glad you liked that st...