Over the years of ones life, you meet many people and develop friendships on many levels. I say “many levels” because in todays day and age of social media, email, etc., sometimes some of the very best friendships are with people you may never have met in person. Social media and the digital age isn’t ALL bad – in fact it can be very life enriching.

Several years ago, I had met online one of our faithful followers of Italia Living and we’ve become friends – while have yet to meet in person. My good friend of Italian heritage, Chaz DeSimone lives in California and is a Designer & Typographer Creator of AmperArt. For those of you unfamiliar with this one area of his work – he artistically blends the “&” symbol between words and design and always accompanies his pieces with a wonderful story. Whether educational, enlightening, insightful or touching – ALWAYS entertaining.