Reflections on our 24 hours in Florence, Italy, with some itinerary recommendations.
24 Hours in Florence
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Back in Perugia
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Some reflections on my most recent trip to Perugia, Italy.
Suffering for Blasphemous Libel
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A sermon on the significance of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn, the first Unitarian minister of African descent.
Being a Descendant, Becoming an Ancestor
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, October 23, 2022 Listen more often to things than to beings,‘tis the Ancestor’s breathwhen the fire’s voice is heard,‘tis the Ancestor’s breathin the voice of the waters. The words come from the Senegalese poet Birago Diop. The music is from Ysaye Barnwell. She is the renowned singer and former member of the well-known a cappella...
Barcelona (and Sitges) by Mouth
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Restaurant and market reviews from Spain.
London Restaurants (2022)
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Some reflections on eating around London...
A Second Day at the Fringe
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The reviews from our second day at the Fringe.
Mas Comtal
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Last weekend, Sadé and I went wine tasting at a vineyard called Mas Comtal in Penedes. I have been to a couple of different wine tastings before. When I was in Spain about 9 years ago when I visited to a big corporate cava producer. It was fairly unimpressive. It felt like a commercial venture–wine Disneyland. And when I was in France in the summer of 2019, I went to a couple of small...
An Accidental Day in Tarragona
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Today was a day that it was a good to have a back-up plan. We went to Barcelona with the intention of taking the train to Zaragoza. Once we got there I found out that we needed to have our passports with us in order to buy non-regional train tickets. Of course, we didn’t have our passports on us so we had to change plans. We ended up taking a regional train to Tarragona, which is where we were...
Perugia
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I spent last weekend visiting my friend from graduate school Zach Nowak. Zach’s now the Director of the Umbra Institute and invited me to come stay with him. I had never been to Italy before and the combination of seeing an old friend and free housing seemed like a great idea. Zach’s an Italian citizen but he’s originally from Rochester, New York and has a deep love for, and deep knowledge of...