apartment living | Donna Miscolta

Living and Learning in Málaga—A New Apartment

By Donna Miscolta | March 30, 2025 |

Living room with white sofa draped with a blue scarf. A small round dining table with an embroidered tablecloth is in the foreground. In the background against the terrace doors framed by pink curtains a woman in a dark top and pants sits on the arm of the sofa looking toward the camera.

This month marked two wildly contented years in Málaga. The anniversary passed with barely a nod of observance because we were in the last phases of moving to a new apartment. Though our possessions are few (clothes, linens, plants, and books—yes, I’ve begun accumulating books again) and we’d been able to move things slowly over…

Shrinking our spaces, but not our selves

By Donna Miscolta | March 29, 2021 |

Window with view of neighborhood and cat perched on couch

I’ve written about the house we used to live in both in fiction and for a live performance (2018 Ampersand Live, minute 18:26). It was our first house, which was also our last house, the fixer-upper that never quite got fixed up enough and in the last years that we occupied it, lost many of…