I usually don’t talk so openly about my family’s deep background but this week at SleuthSayers I’m sharing some old photos and history about my mother’s back story growing up in Italy. I think you’ll find it interesting. She grew up in a small Italian village, and that experience of wartime living affected her for the rest of her life

That’s the subject of my article, which I’m calling…

I wrote this essay back in 2003 or so, when I had just gotten engaged and was living abroad in Italy for a month. (Later changed to a year.) This essay has never seen the light of day until now…