http://www.whyilovevermont.com Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:33:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow. It's been forever since I last posted here. It's been a long, hard winter, baby. Dark. Cold. Boring. I don't remember having such a lackluster winter in a long time.But spring is springing. Clocks have been set ahead an hour. ... http://www.whyilovevermont.com/self/music On my last trip to Rome I made it my mission to find the best gelato. I walked around the city visiting all the top-rated gelaterias and many of the not-top-rated ones. In the process I ate lots and lots of gelato.Gelateria del Teatro, located in a ... http://www.whyilovevermont.com/food/gelateria-del-teatro Stumbled upon this blog unexpectedly when I was searching for a photo of Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (which is a frickin beautiful movie, by the way). "Heck Yeah Nerdy Men" may not have the sharpest graphics, but what a fun idea for a blog. I've only surfed through ... http://www.whyilovevermont.com/photos/heck-yeah-nerdy-men Lately I've been distracted by all the things I dislike about Vermont and not focusing on the positives. Good and even great things do exist here. Take Emily Garrett Yoga, for example. I've been practicing yoga with Emily off and on since 2006 and consider it one ... http://www.whyilovevermont.com/joy/emily-garrett-yoga I was just an empty shell, a body walking around without a soul, until I found Nutella. It's ambrosia; the perfect snack. Nutritious (kinda) and delicious.The fact that Nutella is not the most popular sweet treat in the United States or probably even in the top 50 is ... http://www.whyilovevermont.com/joy/nutella J'aime Tintin. http://www.whyilovevermont.com/international/tintin-snowy-herge Diego Gravinese was born in La Plata, Argentina and currently lives in Buenos Aires, a place I was going to visit a few weeks ago. Buenos Aires is beautiful. So are Diego's photo-realistic oil paintings. Check them out here. http://www.whyilovevermont.com/self/diego-gravinese Josh Finkle makes handcrafted wooden toys, tables, chess pieces and hooks to hang things on. I like these toys based on recently extinct animals. They sure have lots of attitude. http://www.whyilovevermont.com/whimsy/josh-finkle-wooden-creations Captures the imagination more than energy efficiency research does at the moment. http://www.whyilovevermont.com/photos/francais-kiss If I hadn't been stuck on a long plane ride with nothing else to watch, I would never have given "The Big Bang Theory" a chance. Reason being, CBS does a very good job of making the show look painfully bad in promotional commercials. The premise of the ... http://www.whyilovevermont.com/sci-fi-fantasy/the-big-bang-theory