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To blog or not to blog…
Apart from a couple of posts, I stopped writing here at the end of last summer. I believe in positive thinking, and when things go pear-shaped the only way to go is humour. But finding things funny when they’ve got into … Continue reading
The Three Kings or flying back into the past?
It’s taking me a while to adjust to the idea we’re into a New Year. The best advice I’ve come across is probably from Queen Elisabeth II in her Xmas message to our Brexiting friends: ”…take a deep breath…”. Very apt. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cultural, Humour, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #change, #humour, #intercultural, #Italy, #OlympicGames, #Rome
24 Comments
Versatile Bloggers
Surprise and delight on hearing Gringa of the Barrio nominated me for The Versatile Blogger Award, a peer blog award. The award in itself makes me smile, as versatile – in mind, interests, tastes – is something I always admire and look … Continue reading
Exceptional woman breaks through the glass ceiling
Last November 10th, I posted “No Country for Exceptional Women”. In the aftermath of recent events, I read many essays and articles claiming that the USA Presidential glass ceiling had at least been seriously “cracked”. I see no sign of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Cultural, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #ArtemisiaRoma, #GlassCeiling, #Italy, #Rome, Italian culture
21 Comments
Back to the Middle Ages
Most tourists come to Italy in search of good food, good wine, and they visit the main cities. They get to see a lot of Roman ruins and Renaissance and Baroque art, but most don’t venture out on their own … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cultural, Food, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #intercultural, #Italy, #MiddleAges, #Puglia, #travel
15 Comments
No Country for Exceptional Women
Artemisia Gentileschi was considered one of her generation’s most gifted painters, and yet I hadn’t even heard of her before watching a TV documentary last week. I admittedly mastered in Maths at French schools, where History of Art wasn’t compulsory. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cultural, Elections, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #ArtemisiaGentileschi, #creativity, #feminism, #HillaryClinton, #Italy, #USA
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Rome update: frigo-gate and great weather
The politics of this city have been particularly distressing these last months, but we finally got a few good laughs yesterday. Papers and tweets gleefully reported the strange case of piles of old fridges left out on the streets of … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cultural, Humour, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #environment, #frigo-gate, #Italy, #Rome, #weather
10 Comments
Mishmash: Rome and splashes of Puglia
The weather in Rome was lovely, but the string of beautiful late summer days finally broke this morning. No more alternating blue skies, multi-hued wild cotton flocks of sheep-like clouds piling up and blowing by with drenching showers followed by … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cultural, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #intercultural, #Italy, #OlympicGames, #Rome, #traffic, Italian culture
26 Comments
Rome does contemporary too …
The Coliseum sounds exciting to most tourists, but when you have to deal with the illogical clogged one-way traffic lanes counter-crossed around it a couple of times a week, it loses its glamour. So when friends visit, I don’t take them … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Cultural, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #Italy, #RomaPopCity, #Rome, #travel, Italian culture
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Blogging and flowers when it’s hot in Rome
What’s the relationship between blogging and the real world? At a time in which a large portion of world populations seem to be going off the deep end – spurred on by insecurity and fear-mongering segments of world press … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Elections, Environment, Italy, Opinion
Tagged #creativity, #environment, #Italy, #travel
24 Comments
Writing From My 14th Country 