All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know. — Ernest Hemingway
As you read this, Tim and I are off on an adventure. We’ve gone to San Francisco to find Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore and to the surrounding area to track down a branch of Tim’s family tree.
Thanks to several long nights spent on ancestry.com, Tim has found out where his maternal grandmother’s family comes from. He has seen the actual building in San Francisco where Maxine grew up. He went farther back and discovered that the Brooks and Marshall clans have been in the San Francisco area since the gold rush. Up in Oroville, near Sacramento. And so we’re going. I’ll tell you more about the “why” in another piece. But now I want to give you an update on my entry from two weeks ago about Verona and a possible writers retreat.
All I can say is that it’s looking good. Probably late October. Our friends are working feverishly to open a small hotel right in Verona centro. If we get enough people, we’ll have to spill out into other recommended venues. Our writing sessions can, indeed, be held at the amazing Palazzo Castellani, if all the scheduling planets line up correctly for us. And we can have tours and maybe a cooking class and, of course, we’ll have Tim, pulling us in unorthodox but always rewarding directions.
By the time I get back, I should know more. Have a good week. I’ll be back here on the 30th. Meanwhile, go discover something completely new in your own backyard. And then write about it.
Buon viaggio!
Linda Dini Jenkins is a card-carrying Italophile, travel planner, freelance writer, and amateur photographer. Travel is her passion, so writing about her travels just comes naturally. She hopes all her travelers find a way to express their joys, surprises, and fears as they travel and gives every traveler a nifty journal to help smooth the way. Learn more…
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