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As One Does ... Mostly (to for with about) Books (opens the original)
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This issue of my newsletter goes out on the one-month anniversary of my arrival in Florence. Un mese in a Firenze. Italian prepositions will be the death of me. It’s not quite so hot these days; the shadows are a little longer earlier in the afternoons. And as a lucky faculty member at NYU Florence, I was lucky enough to take all three of my classes on private tours of Villa La Pietra, which was donated to the university in 1994 by Harold Acton. That’s sort of like getting to spend the day insid
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I skipped August’s newsletter. Mi dispiace… the month was full of visiting family (and travel delays), an impromptu road trip from Chicago to New York (courtesy of air travel delays), some dreadful health crises (not mine, but those close to my heart), and then…moving to Florence. Habito qui adesso. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X4VE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60974b5
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America’s 250th birthday has come and gone, paint continues to peel off the Reflecting Pool, a heat dome settled over NYC with temperatures that reminded me July in Abu Dhabi (regularly 40C and more), and according to The Atlantic, we are at the end of reading. Truly depressing statistics litter this article, including this one: of 236,000 responses to the American Time Use Survey the <a href="https://news.ufl.edu/202
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