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This is personal message, you need not to read, unless you are a regular visitor and have been wondering why I have sort of disappeared in the past months.

Indeed, if you have not been reading from me in recent months, this is not by chance but for a few good reasons.

In the early days of this year, all of a sudden, I found myself into a dark tunnel and needed to found a way out of it. That was when I was told I had a small cancer in my throath.

A cancer in its “phase 2” that – thanks God – could be treated, with good chances of success.

It could be treated with surgery, or, alternatively, with a combination of Radiotherapy and Chemo Therapy, which in this case is rather taxing on everything related to mouth, nutrition, talk etc.

In addition Chemio Theraphy is heavy on the body and drastically reduces resistance to virus and more. I had been warned: it would not be a walk along the beach but a mountain marathon with narrow shoes or no shoes at all.

After two months of investigations and consultancy, in March, my wife and I decided for the “Therapies” to which this sort of cancer responds quite well.

I have been treated in Torino (where we have moved for some 4 months) starting at mid-march and was completed around mid-may, not without a few extra and side effects and problems, now being take care of.

We will have to have until the end of July to evaluate the success of the Therapies and another month to check if the cancer has been completed defeated.

In the meantime I am working on recovering energies and by the end of September I should be back to full normality.

In the meantime my Back Up Hard Disk (1 terabite) with my photo archive has collapsed and I am told there are few chances to recover the data, despite the related cost. It is just another challenge to overcome in the next months.

At this point let me close on a very positive note. The year so far had been quite hard but soon the sun will shine again: my wife and I are full of joy and expectations, since our daughter Elena is well ahead into her motherhood and soon we will become the grandparents of a new baby. The new arrival is estimated to be on August 7^th (plus or minus 7 days, says the doctor).

Elena and we all have been wishing this baby for many years and this pieces of great news, which came a few weeks before “the tunnel”, has kept up smiling all through this time.

We will celebrate with a party in Sardinia in September.

Another positive side of this experience has been to see how many good friends we have and to which extent they have wanted, and actually, done, to help us in any way.

I am sure you would have been among them if the physical distance separating us would not spread over continents. Thank you, all.

Soon, I shall be returning to this blog more frequently and will try to recover some of the past stories we should have not missed, perhaps with short stories (not as exhaustive as they deserve) but at least with some good pictures.