I want to ask you something directly. You have been thinking about Tuscany for a while. Maybe since you read the book — Frances Mayes writing about buying a house on a hillside above Cortona and discovering that life could be organized around beauty and olive oil and the specific quality of an afternoon in…
There is a specific moment that happens on group tours that most people recognize but rarely articulate. You are standing somewhere beautiful — a vineyard, a hilltop viewpoint, a medieval piazza — and you are surrounded by twenty other people who are also standing there, also looking, also photographing. The guide is speaking into a…
There is a specific problem with corporate gifting that nobody in the corporate gifting industry wants to acknowledge. The gifts do not work. Not because they are low quality — many are not. Not because the recipients are ungrateful — most are perfectly polite about it. But because a gift that could have been given…