A Carpe Diem Snapshot : This evening at the Domus Australia an Easter party and end-of-semester celebration was organized by the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Sede Vacante : At noon, the massive bronze bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled 88 times, slowly and somberly,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Buona Pasqua from all of us at the Villa Magnolia! Pictured here is the 2025 cast of "The...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Thanks to Moira, our Carpe Diem moment today was a blessing of the Easter baskets by this priest, with the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This was the cross that St. Philip Neri prayed in front of when he discerned his vocation to the priesthood and...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Tonight we participate in one of the most lovely and dramatic events of the liturgical year in Rome- the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The final Art and Architecture presentation of personal crest designs just concluded, at a soiree by the gazebo, ...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The end is near! Today, we are spending this rainy Spring afternoon studying for tomorrow's Art and Architecture...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today's quote of the day waxes poetic about this glorious season of Spring. It's a feast for all the senses out...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy Palm Sunday! Today we weren't able to attend any of the impressive processions (the one at St. Peter's is...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The messy process of Spring cleaning, landscaping, and gardening has begun, as well as preparations for the great...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It's the final Friday of Lent, and I finally made it to the Stations of the Cross stairway at San Pietro in...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: For our final Art and Architecture class today (sob!), we began at one of Michelangelo's masterpiece, that...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: In a big, busy city like Rome, choosing one street over another can produce a whole new set of unexpected...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Fortuitously, we chose Piazza Venezia as our starting point for class today, which was unusually full of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Casey captured this Carpe Diem Snapshot yesterday and created this spontaneous Sunday picnic! She reminded me of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was a very full Passion Sunday in Rome today. Among the highlights was the annual exhibition of " Veronica's...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: I stalked these sisters to capture this snapshot this morning on the Janiculum hill and was rewarded by a lovely...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The Guardians of Villa Magnolia-- our property patron, St. Anthony of Padua (on the bronze wall plaque), and...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The girls and I went on the " Grand Tour " at the Pincio promenade today, in imitation of so many artsy...