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...

  Donatella’s followers may have been wondering what happened to her. Why is her last blog entry from several years ago? Why did she suddenly appear to disappear?     Well, here’s the scoop. Instea d of keeping Donatella in the spotlight, Donatella’s own alter ego, Diane Joy Charney, has been consumed with writing a book called  Letters to Men of Letters . It incubated for quite a while, and after a bumpy gestation period,  Letters to Men of Letters  has finally emerged.                     Is there room in this blog for Diane and Donatella to  coexist? We’ll see... But first, another only-in-Italy car adventure.