Author:

Joel Strangis

Coming to America

A Promise Made – A Promise Kept

on
February 11, 2024
A story that enshrines the enduring love and respect Dorothy Nuzzi Strangis had for her mother, Catarina Capobianco, who married for love twice, and for her father, Francesco Nuzzi, who made a promise to an unknown woman thousands of miles away – and kept it. 
Calabria

Visit the Home of a Monster

on
October 14, 2023
It’s not every day that you are able to visit the site where six men were devoured by a monster. Nor swim beneath the cliff where the monster lived. Or at least where someone we call Homer placed the story 2,700 years ago.
Catalonia

La Sagrada Familia

on
January 17, 2021
I believe even an atheist would be inspired by the vision of light and space, works of nature, and works of human artists.
Catalonia

Christmas in Catalonia

on
January 17, 2021
With no refrigeration in Puigcerda, a mile-and-a-half walk to the French town of Bourg-Madame was needed. The adventure was highlighted by an overzealous Spanish border guard, holding a sub-machine gun, who berated us in Catalan for walking on the wrong side of the road.