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Joie Davidow, the local author who co-founded LA Weekly and the no-longer-with-us LA Style, recently acquired an apartment in Rome and gloats about it in the new Metropolitan Home.
In Rome there is always time for a coffee, for a chat, for a laugh. I work better in Rome because the pace gives me room to think creatively...so I keep coming back, like a woman addicted to love....
The apartment I bought is in Trastevere, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Rome or, for that matter, in the world...I could hardly believe that the magnificent Piazza Santa Maria was only a few steps from my door, or that by walking a few steps in the opposite direction, I could be crossing the Ponte Garibaldi, watching gulls follow the Tiber upstream, the great dome of St. Peter to my left, to my right the dome of the central synagogue.
Her latest book is Marked for Life: A Memoir.
Ah, but five years in Rome and you become a monument; ten and you become a relic; twenty and you become a ruin.
Posted by: joseph at February 13, 2004 07:55 AMYes Amy, thanks. 'Twas my transcription error so I fixed it.
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at February 13, 2004 09:26 AMI sort of wish you'd titled this one "The Roman Spring of Joie Davidow."
Posted by: Cathy Seipp at February 13, 2004 11:18 AMSo do I, come to think of it. I wish better headlines would come to me late at night...
Posted by: Kevin Roderick at February 13, 2004 11:48 AM
of LA Observed
Picky, picky me, but I believe she lives in "Trastevere."
Posted by: Amy Alkon at February 13, 2004 07:52 AM