Dear Blog Readers– I don’t know if any of you remember the Dunkin Donuts advertisement back from the 1980s but for some reason its catch phrase has stuck in my brain all these years. “It’s Time to Make the Donuts!” says Fred the Baker as he reaches to turn off his alarm clock at dawn […]
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I am in the spectacular city of Ferrara in northern Italy, for the “Internazionale a Ferrara”, a festival where journalists from all over the globe get together to talk about their work. I was invited to speak about my blog on a panel with Claudio Rossi Marcelli, a gay father of three who has written
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Dear Blog Readers – My absence from the Blogsphere for the past week has been due to the fact that I am moving, and yesterday I seem to have hit rock bottom. So, “basta” (enough) with the boxes, and time for some blogging. The photo above I took at a bus stop near my home.
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Dear Blog Readers – I’ve had little time for blogging these days, but I wanted to share the above photo. Last night I had to cover a night tour of Rome’s Colosseum. The special tour for journalists just happened to coincide with the Giant Moon. After we finished filming inside we walked out and I
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Dear Blog Readers, you are all going to think I am completely nuts, but here goes. Today I was walking home from work down Rome’s famous Via Del Corso lost deep in thought, I was thinking about my usual concerns (work -Italian hostage killed in botched British rescue attempt in Nigeria and kids- Caterina has
It’s March 8th, International Women’s Day, when we are supposed to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In Italy people give women mini-bouquets of yellow mimosa flowers. I will leave the background and history of internationlal women’s day to other bloggers, but I want to say that an
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Last night I got to go to a special preview showing for the film “Diaz – Don’t Clean Up this Blood”, an Italian film in which my son Nico had a small role as a No-Global protester from France who goes to the G8 Summit in Genoa to join in the massive demonstrations. But he,
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Food and fevers are at the top of any good Italian mamma’s to-do list, but clothing is not far behind. Italian mammas are obsessive about how their children dress and Italian children are often perfectly dressed. First, they have to have a canottiera, undershirt. They actually call it the ‘maglia della salute’, the health shirt.
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