First Post Jitters...

It's a cloudy Wednesday here in Northern Italy, and I have to physically be in the office today. This would usually mean that there are no other priorities than work + mom duties + dinner + bed. But today, the 8th of January in the 2025th year of our Lord (lol), I decided I would start writing my first blog. 

View of Monte Berico on a cloudy day, from the gardens at Villa Valmarana ai Nani

This blog has been birthed and deathed about three thousand and infinity times, on many motivated mornings or mind-churning moon stare-offs I've had over the past seven years. I was even gifted a travel journal and a travel album from my previous work-friend-mates with the very sweet note written in it, "I can't wait to read your blog about Italy!" Everyone, even me, expected this to happen a long long time ago.

Eek. A leeettle late. But! Here we are...! 

My story doesn't start with Italy, but by God (and MY GOD), does it thrive here.  There was my life before Italy, and there is my life now. My general level of stress has exponentially gone down and I have learned to love "La Dolce Vita" as the Italians call it.

Things that didn't make sense at first, and that annoyed me on a level I'm embarrassed to admit, are now things that I appreciate and expect. (These will be covered in a future post. That I just wrote. But deleted from this post, because..."Tangent Tam" strikes again.)

Some of this site's content will feature trips as far back as 2018, just for the sake of getting things out of my head (and digital photo albums) into the world. I want to share the beautiful and hard and rewarding and oh-so-soul-filling journey we've had living overseas so far.

So, here goes nothing. And also everything.

From Italy with Love, Tam (...jitters and all)