I spent the day at the Vatican today and I had to keep my head low to keep from getting hit, the mud was flying!!! Not literally though. Literally there was just a steady stream of rain and some hail, but there was nothing to stop that metaphorical mud, and it has been flying all […]
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Dear Blog Readers — I’m seeing RED. I’ve become obsessed with Cardinals. I am constantly contemplating Cardinals. I stay awake at night fretting about Cardinals and spend my days plotting to get Cardinal interviews. This week I will do a post on the Cardinals who are considered “papabili”, future Pope contenders, but now I just
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Dear Blog Readers– So many of you responded to my post on the Pope’s resignation with questions that I hate to disappoint you all with my lack of information. Working for AP Television I charge headlong into the day doing interview after interview, priests, cardinals, tourists, Vatican analysts and there is no time for deep
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Holy Smoke! The Pope announced his resignation today, the first Pope to do so in nearly 600 years. My Monday started out with the usual rush to get kids out the door to school and get myself to work. When I got to the office I wrote our daily office “opener” to our London editors
Dear Blog Readers — I don’t know about any of you, but sometimes when I need a little inspiration to get through a tough time I dig back in history trying to come up with people who I admire. For some time now, one woman has been among those at the top of my list,
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Dear Blog Readers — Any of you who read my post last summer on Balotelli’s Mamma know that I am a fan of Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli, not for his golden feet and the goals he scores with them, but for what he has put up with and accomplished. Mario Balotelli remains the first
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Dear Blog Readers– Below is Part II of Catherine’s hilarious tale and I will leave it to her except a few brief notes. First to say I am pleased that she found some of the things she had read on my blog about Italian men and Italian culture to be true and second that I
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Dear Blog Readers — Today I have a little surprise. A loyal reader of this blog sent me an email with an hilarious tale and word of warning on Italian men, the masters of seduction. We agreed that I would change a few details and names in her story so that she and the Italian
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