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sabrina lloyd
Mar 17, 20201 min read
Lockdown
How are you handling the isolation? We are drawing, listening to music. Trying to not read too much news (not working.) Today was the...
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sabrina lloyd
Jun 18, 20142 min read
Packing
So many things, moments, snapshots I want to pack in my suitcase, burrow deep in my pockets, drill into memory, which seems to become a...
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sabrina lloyd
Nov 9, 20122 min read
You can’t go home again
I keep thinking of Hilary Mantel, winner of the Booker Prize, twice. The New Yorker did a wonderful article on her in which she...
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sabrina lloyd
Aug 23, 20121 min read
Roman purgatory
It’s hot. Really hot. 98 (37) in the shade hot. Pure skin to liquid in the sun hot. It’s been this way for weeks, will be this way for...
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sabrina lloyd
Jul 10, 20121 min read
Listing
As my sojourn in the states comes to an end and Italy looms closer every day, I find myself reflecting on all I will miss and the things...
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sabrina lloyd
Nov 2, 20112 min read
Breaking bread
I love how Italians eat lunch. The middle of the day is not just a stop to refuel, to grab something on the go, to get to the next point,...
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sabrina lloyd
Sep 25, 20111 min read
Naples
I am in love. Italy is now mine. It took a dark, edgy city to pull me in, and sink me. Naples is deep. It’s dirty. It’s sexy. It’s...
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sabrina lloyd
Jun 6, 20111 min read
Tuscan twisting
Here’s what you get when you mix yoga and wine country: yesterday in class, here on my yoga retreat tucked into a Tuscan hill, after an...
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sabrina lloyd
Jun 1, 20112 min read
From concrete to vines to mountains to sea
Summer is here. Storms hang in corners; windows are now perpetually open, as mosquitoes rest on my pillow waiting for me to sleep so that...
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sabrina lloyd
May 30, 20111 min read
The Sabine Hills
Just a 45 minute drive from Rome, you can climb up into the sky. Below you are cherry trees, olive trees, and apple trees, that you can...
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sabrina lloyd
May 8, 20111 min read
This and that at the Borgo di Tragliata
For Mother’s Day weekend we drove to the country to see this: We stayed on an organic farm, in an old stone house: which is this: where...
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sabrina lloyd
Apr 27, 20111 min read
Start them early
I was wondering today, as I drank my fourth cup of espresso and felt my heart pounding in my toes, how the Italians do it. Espresso,...
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sabrina lloyd
Apr 25, 20113 min read
Easter
Strange Easter. We had decided to spend it up north in an old monastery outside of Orvieto. Being an ex-pat, the holidays are more...
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sabrina lloyd
Apr 23, 20114 min read
Roberto and Orte
Feeling the need to get out of the smoke and noise filled city, we decided to head to Orte yesterday for a little medieval town...
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sabrina lloyd
Apr 20, 20112 min read
La dolce vita
Italians love their sweets. For breakfast it’s always, always dolce. You cannot find a plain croissant in Rome. Most are stuffed with jam...
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