For my fourth-grade country report my teacher assigned me Denmark. DENMARK!?!? I mean, doesn’t she know I am Italian? I should be assigned Italy. But nope. Denmark. I was (I’m sure) visibly disappointed. I had never even heard of that country before. I reluctantly stuck my nose in an encyclopedia to learn about Denmark, and…
This was my fourth time at the Amalfi Coast since moving to Italy in 2016. Only once before had I ever been in the waters off the coast – when I swam into the Blue Grotto in Capri in 2017 (highly illegal by the way). That was a pivotal moment for me and I often…
I made a split quick decision to go back to my hometown in Upstate NY over the Christmas holiday. Reeling from a recent break-up, the emotional weight of the pandemic and having just moved into a new apartment, I was already feeling down in the dumps when BOOM! The Italian government slaps down a whole…
