Susan Taylor Brand is a writer and teacher who hails from Northern California and currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, although she has traveled widely and lived in several countries, including Italy. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor and U.S. News and World Report, her fiction in the Feminine Collective. Currently a member of Northern Colorado Writers, she is at work on a young adult novel.
I sit down at my desk to write a letter to Rome, the city of love and the death of love and love that dies trying to be born. I think of Piazza Vittorio, on the Esquiline Hill. The four plaza walls are made of apartments built during the Risorgimento, the period after Garibaldi…
