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Dar es Salaam revisited…
2008.11.26
Yep, still here in sunny, really warm Dar for the MF seminar. I hear it is cold/snowy/rainy back in Roma (really sorry about that guys–maybe it is some sort of divine intervention). I just finished reading a sequel to White Masai and like they say about all sequels–just not the same […]
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Karibu from Dar es Salaam
2008.11.25
Hello world! American Girl has been seriously neglecting her blogging due to travel. The weather is fabulous; company equally so. We are talking about East/South African legal issues to delivering financial services to the poor. Jerry Michalski is training on IT and social media for disseminating information and maintaining an e-community. […]
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O is for Ooooo Silvio: what have you done?!
2008.11.06
Silvio, it is time … yes, time for you to go quietly into the night.
Move to your villa in Sardegna, put your bandanna on and curl up poolside with a good … well, I was going to suggest a good book. But, now that I think about it, do you read? […]
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Return to the Bel Paese from Dubrovnik
2008.08.14
American Girl is back, relaxed and bronzed by the Croatian sun. We visited Rovinj, Zadar, Split and finally Dubrovnik. Zadar and Dubrovnik were my favorites with the prettiest architecture and cleanest sea for swimming, or floating on the waves as I mostly did. Lenny Kravitz was also in Zadar and we think […]
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So, you gotta car? I am partial to fire engine red myself…
2008.04.28
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Ode to Marzo
2008.02.24
Catarì
Salvatore Di Giacomo
Marzo: nu poco chiove
e n’ato ppoco stracqua
torna a chiòvere, schiove;
Ie ‘o sole cu ll’acqua.
Mo nu cielo celeste,
mo n’aria cupa e nera,
mo d’ ‘o vierno ‘e ‘tempeste,
mo n’aria ‘e Primmavera.
N’auciello freddigliuso
aspetta ch’esce o sole,
ncopp’ ‘o tterreno nfuso
suspirano ‘e viole…
Catarì, che vuò cchiù?
Ntienneme, core mio,
Marzo, tu ‘o ssaje, si’ tu,
e st’auciello song’ […]
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Sick Apartment Syndrome
2008.02.18
I have spent the last 5 days sick, in the company of my sick husband and sick apartment. Our apartment, which was built in the mid- 1990’s is terminally ill. The first symptoms occurred this summer, of course while we were on vacation. We returned to a kitchen turned lagoon and a […]
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Auguri for 2008!
2008.01.01
Hello Italo-philes everywhere! I am happy to be back to the mild, yet damp Orvieto climate, my doggie and a normal diet senza grasso. Two weeks in the US is enough to recharge my customer-service deprived battery and allows me to stock up on needed consumer goods, like a new white mini-laptop with a hot pink data […]
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