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MalcolmClay's profile Mel Mathews / 49, Male / Member since September 2007 / Last seen 5 months ago

Following a quick shower after waking around eleven a.m. in his small flat in the city center of Florence, Italy, Mel’s out the door to the pasticceria around the corner for breakfast: a cappuccino and a budino di riso. He'll then find a chair and take to pen and paper, recording his dreams and other musings.

Around two, he'll wander to a local trattoria for lunch with one of his many good friends. Then it's time to answer emails and tend to what he likes to call, "the less rewarding duties of the day."

Just before seven, he'll walk across the Ponte Vecchio to the Oltrano, for an apperitivo at Café Cabiria in Piazza Santo Spirito. If he's still hungry he'll have a plate of pasta somewhere along the way on this short walk to Piazza Piattellina located in the San Frediano neighborhood, to the Hemingway to be exact, where you'll often find him quietly sitting in the corner drinking a glass of Chianti, or indulging in one of the cafe's many famous desserts, and working away on a current novel.

Mel Mathews is the author of the Malcolm Clay Trilogy (Published by Fisher King Press): LeRoi ISBN 0977607607, Menopause Man ISBN 0977607615, & SamSara ISBN 0977607623 - all available from your local bookstore, a host of on-line booksellers, or you can order directly from www.melmathews.com. But buyers beware, for along with the sacred comes an equal amount of the profane, as one can't exist without the other!