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  • Moon Southern Italy: An Interview with Linda Sarris

    BOOKS, WRITING · June 3, 2022

    Moon Southern Italy: An Interview with Linda Sarris

    Moon Amalfi Coast with Capri, Naples & Pompeii, 2nd Edition

    BOOKS, WRITING · February 8, 2022

    Moon Amalfi Coast with Capri, Naples & Pompeii, 2nd Edition

    We’re Writing a Novel!

    WRITING · January 30, 2022

    We’re Writing a Novel!

    Interview with Author Lucy Knott

    BOOKS, WRITING · December 19, 2020

    Interview with Author Lucy Knott

    Big News … Moon Amalfi Coast 2nd Edition Coming Out in 2021!

    WRITING · September 20, 2020

    Big News … Moon Amalfi Coast 2nd Edition Coming Out in 2021!

    Dream of Italy Capri Special Report

    TRAVEL, WRITING · May 23, 2020

    Dream of Italy Capri Special Report

    A Glimpse of My Scala in Italia! Magazine

    TRAVEL, WRITING · May 17, 2020

    A Glimpse of My Scala in Italia! Magazine

    Discover the Art of Capri in Italia! Magazine

    TRAVEL, WRITING · January 26, 2020

    Discover the Art of Capri in Italia! Magazine

    Moon Amalfi Coast: With Capri, Naples & Pompeii

    WRITING · April 23, 2019

    Moon Amalfi Coast: With Capri, Naples & Pompeii

    Special Announcement: I’m Writing an Amalfi Coast Guidebook!

    WRITING · June 16, 2018

    Special Announcement: I’m Writing an Amalfi Coast Guidebook!

    My One-Word Theme for 2018: CREATIVITY

    WRITING · January 6, 2018

    My One-Word Theme for 2018: CREATIVITY

    Timeless Atrani

    WRITING · November 26, 2017

    Timeless Atrani

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    My name is Laura and the Amalfi Coast is my passion and my home. I’m a writer and photographer who is endlessly inspired by the incredible beauty of the Amalfi Coast. Welcome to Ciao Amalfi!

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    What a moving experience yesterday morning to see What a moving experience yesterday morning to see the Olympic torch in Amalfi. 🔥 One of the many many reasons I love living right in the center of Amalfi is that in one minute I can be in the middle of making pasta with artichokes and the next watching a historic moment happen. I never take that for granted! @milanocortina2026 @olympics
    Well that was unexpected but fun! 🎄#amalfi #christ Well that was unexpected but fun! 🎄#amalfi #christmas #natale
    Lovely new Christmas ornament created by @illustra Lovely new Christmas ornament created by @illustrationbyjonathan of Jane Austen’s House in Chawton and her tiny 12-sided writing table. It looks exactly like the beautiful spring day when I was there in April this year. Such a beautiful memory! I think this will have to stay out all year.
    Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! One of the de Happy 250th birthday to Jane Austen! One of the definite highlights of my year was visiting @janeaustenshouse in Chawton on a beautiful spring day. I still think of her tiny writing table and what it felt like to stand there and take it all in. I’ve enjoyed the book “A Jane Austen Year” throughout the year - pulling it off the shelf at the start of each month. While at Chawton, I picked up the embroidery kit by @abigailrosecreative made to celebrate the 250th celebration. I’ve been wanting to learn to do embroidery for years, so this was the perfect souvenir from Jane Austen’s House. Still a work in progress, but I’m nearly there! 🧵🪡
    I don’t know how to begin describing Naples, which I don’t know how to begin describing Naples, which is how I felt seeing “Partenope - Musica per la sirena di Napoli” at the @teatrosancarlo yesterday. This opera in one act was written by the great Ennio Morricone 30 years ago, and it was finally performed for the first time this weekend. Just in time for the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Naples. Mary Oliver wrote: “A town cannot live on dreams.” I was thinking about that line yesterday and wondering if maybe a town could live on mythology. 2,500 years later, Naples might just be proof that it can.
    A beautiful and very festive Christmas tree lighti A beautiful and very festive Christmas tree lighting at the @anantaraconventodiamalfi tonight! Always love hearing the beautiful voice of my sweet friend @lucykielymusic. Now it feels like Natale in Amalfi! ✨🎶🎄
    As 2025 winds down, I’ve been making my way throug As 2025 winds down, I’ve been making my way through some of the books sitting unfinished on my bedside table. I usually finish a book once started, but occasionally I come across one that is so good I can’t let myself rush through it all at once. I want to hang on to that first read as long as I can, slowly savoring the way it changes the geography of my mind.

This autumn that has been “Upstream” - a selection of essays by Mary Oliver. If “attention is the beginning of devotion,” as Oliver writes in the first essay in the book, I am deeply devoted to her writing. Few writers capture my attention and hold it the way she does. This will be a book I know will return to again and again. And, even though I’ve finished, it might be a long time before it leaves my bedside table. I’ll just leave you with a couple of Oliver’s magical lines:

“You must not ever stop being whimsical.

And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
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