A Carpe Diem Snapshot: With construction work underway all over Rome in preparation for the Great Jubilee of 2025 , which begins in a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we took in the " Tree of Life" mosaic at the Basilica of San Clemente, led by the intrepid Hannah O'Connor....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: First day of first grade-- forza Cordelia!! She is stepping into history at the Scuola Pio IX , which was founded...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: A long, dusty road- the via Aurelia- connects the city of Rome to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Less than an hour from the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Cordelia confidently inaugurated this semester's first " Jane Austen Society Tea Party" after lunch today, which...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: "Non so chi ha creato il mondo, ma so che era innamorato." The Janiculum hill is known to inspire amateur poets,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Ave Caput Mundi! Today, for my first Art and Architecture class of the semester, we headed to the Capitoline hill...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: A very special sunrise this morning! Thundering hail on the skylight woke me up in the wee hours so I figured a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I captured this classic Roman scene at the Santo Spirito bar this morning. These ancient Italian religious sisters...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Each and every day in Rome, I encounter example after example of how all roads lead here. Yesterday evening we...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Buona Domenica da Roma! Liturgical: Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Brothers and sisters: He "for a little...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today's Carpe Diem moment didn't disappoint. We arrived to rain in Rome this morning but ended the day with a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Farewell to the Matriarch of Piety Hill, the reason we are all here (and the reason Calendar Class was turned into...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: "I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy." -- Charles Baudelaire Autumnal beauty...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Angels among us. A friend and I were having a conversation about angels among us a few weeks ago, and how once we...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today, this first morning of the first of October, was appropriately autumnal with gloomy, grey skies and drizzle...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Pre-dawn is the calm before the storm. Before even the birds begin their incessant chirping. Before the kids begin...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we Carpe Diemed and zipped over to the home of some dear friends to say goodbye before we head back to Rome....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning, we continued hauling everything out of the water and taking all the outdoors things to the indoors...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Last night, this spectacular September sunset caught us by surprise. Why are some sunsets so much more vivid than...