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A New Year, an old Fiat500!
2010.01.05
Welcome to my world Luigi! My beautiful baby is a blue ‘72 Fiat 500 (Model L with red leather interior, authentic Naples plates .
Follow this link to see a close cousin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_500_front_20071020.jpg … pix of the real Luigi will be posted soon.
Why a Fiat500 you ask?
It is a combination of […]
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Found: one dead grey cat
2009.10.12
This was not an auspicious beginning of my week.
And, it went downhill from there. But, Autumn is in the air and soon, I will be able to light my camino and smell that lovely profume of burning wood, mingled with fresh, clean Orvieto air.
Stay tuned, when i am in a better mood […]
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American Girl in Italy Needs Job
2009.08.12
Yes, it is that time again: the end of summer blues when we all contemplate our realities and think that this cannot be my reality for much longer.
Trouble is, when assessing one’s options — having defected from the pursuit of the swivel chair in NY some 10 years hence for the glamour that […]
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Volterran Vaudeville and Kafka-esque Trenitalia
2009.07.23
Surprisingly, some somewhat heartening news from the heartland of Italia this week.
The Intl. Herald Tribune reported on a theatre programme in the Italian prison system, which is so popular that convicted criminals try to get transferred to the prison in Volterra that hosts the initiative, and they don’t like to leave prison because […]
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Re-entry from Amman
2009.06.22
Italy welcomes you back with an hour wait in line for a security check before you enter the airport (after having descended from the airplane). Of course there were 4 carabinieri operating one security check point for 200+ persons in line and of course they fell all over themselves to assist the pretty young […]
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American Girl in the Jordan Valley
2009.06.17
I am listening to Jerry Michalski’s training on use of the internet for social networking and dissemination of information. I hope to learn how to improve my blog so that I can ultimately take over Italia…or at least the Umbrian region, pouring hot internet oil on all who trespass.
A word on the Jordan Valley […]
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Papino Pan
2009.05.03
Dear Mr. Berlusconi,
Sometimes the measure of a man is largely calculated by the woman at his side.
Note: I said woman, and not teenage playmate who does not know any better.
Your shenanigans have lost you a very strong, intelligent woman.
Your soon to be ex-wife deserves a prince, while you have […]
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Happy 100 Days Mr. President …
2009.04.29
Sung to the tune of Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Mr. President … though, I guess updated for 2009, it should be Rihanna singing.
There is so much going on in the international news, but oddly, all that the Italians are reporting on is how the global financial crisis is effecting everyone else’s banks but the Italian, […]
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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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