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Travels with Jessica (Page 2)

Thursday Update

2013-09-05
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: September 5, 2013
In: Conversations with Jessica, Travels with Jessica

  More Travels with Jessica! I’m working on more essays for the book (yes, there will be a book!)—stay tuned for information about that. And I am trying to come up with an approach for Conversations with Jessica to become a book, working with amazing artist Lynne Baur. And, forContinue Reading

Travels with Jessica

2013-08-29
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: August 29, 2013
In: Stories about Jessica, Travels with Jessica

  In which I inch closer to taking a vacation to Italy with Jessica.   And: Dojo Wisdom for Writers, second edition, now available! Catch a Falling Star (by Jessica Starre) and The Matchmaker Meets Her Match (by Jenny Jacobs), two of my favorite novels. And don’t forget classes forContinue Reading

Travels with Jessica: Last Stop Before Home

2013-01-09
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: January 9, 2013
In: Travels with Jessica

We go to Naples on a bus, not the most charming city ever. It’s crowded with tall residential buildings with all the wash hanging on the balconies. Every apartment has a balcony. The traffic is a mess; Neapolitans seem to regard lanes as nothing more than a suggestion. We arriveContinue Reading

Travels with Jessica: Italian Cooking

2013-01-08
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: January 8, 2013
In: Travels with Jessica

We take a cooking class at Scoglio di Frisio, a restaurant near the train station in Rome. The chef praises Jessica for her excellent questions about how sauces are made. “Brava,” he tells her over and over as they consult about the sauces, discussing how the addition of wine preventsContinue Reading

Travels with Jessica: When in Rome

2013-01-07
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: January 7, 2013
In: Travels with Jessica

I am standing in a Christmas market in the Piazza Navone, trying to explain the limits of our suitcase to a child who does not wish to understand. You can guess who wins this argument. “Let’s have dinner there,” Jess says and points to a bistro. She orders the grigliataContinue Reading

Travels with Jessica: Oops.

2013-01-04
By: Jennifer Lawler
On: January 4, 2013
In: Travels with Jessica

If you happen to be a guest at an actual castle in a small town outside Verona, and the check-out time is noon, and it happens to be New Year’s Day when you are leaving, and you have perhaps engaged in revelry the night before, no one will be soContinue Reading

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