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International Women’s Month Salute Marisa Rodriguez Today for International Women’s Month we salute Marisa Rodriguez, San Francisco’s “Cheerleader in Chief” and the driving force behind revitalizing the vibrant heart of The City as CEO of the Union Square Alliance. A key destination and economic center for the Bay Area spanning 27 city blocks and accounting for $21 billion in assessed rates, the Alliance makes up 3% of the city’s total a…

Upon This Rock” Brings Visitors to Orvieto Ever since Alfredo’s and my first visit to Orvieto, Italy in 2014 we’ve been singing the praises of this magical Umbrian town. And, of course, it served as the inspiration and setting for my best-selling and award-winning mystery thriller Upon This Rock. This month, we were delighted to see that the book paid off: inspiring my friend Ken Ferraris and his husband to visit. Of course, we gave them…

The Last Torpedo: WWII vs. 1982 vs. 2026 On 2 May 1982, during the Falklands War, a quiet drama unfolded beneath the cold waters of the South Atlantic that would become one of the defining naval moments of the late twentieth century. A British submarine, the nuclear-powered HMS Conqueror (S48), fired torpedoes at the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano. Within hours the ship was sinking, and the event would bec…