italia
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It’s OK to Feel Horrible
“Write a list of things that are going to get better, start with you.” Unknown Feeling Horrible and Powerless Am I the…
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What’s Next?
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” Henry…
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Find Peace in Submission
I believe we can find calmness in submission. Even amongst terror, there is beauty. If you can’t see it then create it…
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The People in the Neighborhood / Le persone del vicinato
Meeting My Neighbors in Italy / Conoscere i miei vicini In Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall, he writes, “Good fences make good…
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My Italian Anniversary
This week was a big one for me. It marked one-year since I arrived in Italia, one year after packing up the…
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Living Life with More Spaghetti and Less Pizza
“I can’t stand to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.” Ernest Hemingway Last week during…
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I Believe It Has Been a Great Year
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt My first post of 2019 started on an Air France flight traveling from…
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Shift Happens in the Piazza
The piazzas of Italy are great places to watch life in a city happen and your life change. Read about how shift…
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One Person’s Sunset Is Another Person’s Sunrise
“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in…
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Kindness in Strangers
Almost everybody in Italia is a foreigner to me. Sometimes it’s difficult to get by without seeking kindness in strangers first. “Unexpected…
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Cloudy with Occasional Brilliant Sunshine
If I had to characterize the last month as a weather forecast, I would say it’s been partly cloudy with occasional brilliant…
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Burrata Cheese Replaced My Burrito… Campari Is the New Cuervo
“If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.” Friday, September 13, marked seven months since I arrived in Italia.…
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The Fearless Nonna Siciliana
“Great things never came from comfort zones.” Neil Strauss After four weeks on an island off the coast of Sicilia, it is…
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The Search for Italian Satisfaction
“Satisfaction is not always the fulfillment of what you want; it is the realization of how blessed you are for what you…
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Melting (Literally) into My First Summer in Italia
A change in the weather is sufficient enough to recreate the world and ourselves. Marcel Proust After a rather unseasonably cool May…
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Don’t Play to Win… Play to Burn!
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” Rumi I owe you an apology. I have been hiding something…
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The Doctor Will See You Now
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died!” Erma Bombeck Can Americans see a doctor in Italy? Yes, even before…
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Euro-Size Me!
“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the…
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The Year of “Firsts” Is Over: Sono sulla mia strada!
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi Many people warned me about the year of firsts long before…
